Construction Supervision with Augmented Reality

Abstract: Construction sites are key points regarding implementing robot supervision to create more secure, reliable, and free hand-work workspaces. This project’s scope is to develop a complete interpretation of a modern concept of surveillance. For this case, the test scenario is the industrial lab at the Faculty of Engineering, Lund University, known as RobotLab. For its development, an Augmented Reality scenario is recreated in which the work done by the ABB IRB2400 robot is studied at the lab. The use of Unity and ROS as special software programs and systems can generate this concept in a manner that can be easily reproduced in other scenes. In order to give a more modern concept, the tool for taking care of the vigilance is a robot, or in this case, a simulation of the robot Spot from Boston Dynamics. The reason behind this is to produce a more automatic project so that the person in charge can operate this robot and use its camera for the creation of the Augmented Reality. In general terms, the development of this project is carried out by the use of a large number of separate projects from different developers and research companies. In conclusion, the idea is to provide a software package to be applied and integrated into other constructions scenarios for the recreation of Augmented Reality scenarios.