A scheme (300) for facilitating automated AR-based rendering with respect to expert guidance or assistance provided in a connected work environment based on contextualization is disclosed. In one aspect, a method comprises a worker (102) requiring assistance with respect to a given task generating (302) one or more suitable queries. Responsive thereto, real-time context data is gathered (304), which may comprise data relating to the work environment. A remote expert (118) may generate (306) appropriate guidance relevant to the task and assistance query, which may be rendered as AR content (308) for worker consumption by using an AR rendering module (112). The worker (102) consumes or uses the AR content for performing (310) an action with respect to the task. The performance of the worker (102) may be used as a measure to improve the AR rendering in automated fashion (312, 314) using one or more machine learning modules (114).

An off-line programming apparatus includes a model creation unit that creates three-dimensional models of a robot and a load, a storage unit that stores a dynamic parameter of the load, a graphic creation unit that creates a three-dimensional graphic representing the dynamic parameter based on the dynamic parameter, and a display unit that displays the three-dimensional models of the robot and the load and the three-dimensional graphic. The dynamic parameter includes inertia around three axes that are orthogonal to one another at a centroid of the load. The three-dimensional graphic is a solid defined by dimensions in three directions orthogonal to one another. The graphic creation unit sets a ratio of the dimensions in the three directions of the three-dimensional graphic to a ratio corresponding to a ratio of the inertia around the three axes.

A method for operating a ride attraction includes moving a ride vehicle along a pathway, with at least one rider in or on the ride vehicle, and with the at least one rider wearing a headset having a display and a window. Virtual images are created on the display based at least in part on a position of the ride vehicle along the pathway, with the at least one rider viewing the virtual images, and with the at least one rider also simultaneously viewing real world images of real world objects through the window. The virtual images may be overlaid onto the real-world images.

A method for managing nonconformances in laminates. The method comprises recording, by a sensor system, layup information about a layup of layers on a workpiece platform, wherein the layup of layers forms a workpiece and recording inspection information about the laminate on an inspection platform, wherein the laminate is formed from curing the workpiece. An analyzer in a computer system identifies a laminate nonconformance in the laminate using the inspection information and a user input verifies the laminate nonconformance in the laminate is present. An artificial intelligence system is trained by the computer system using the layup information, the inspection information, and the user input verifying the laminate nonconformance.

An industrial visualization system generates and delivers virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) presentations of industrial facilities to wearable appliances to facilitate remote or enhanced interaction with automation systems within the facility. VR presentations can comprise three-dimensional (3D) holographic views of a plant facility or a location within a plant facility. The system can selectively render a scaled down view that renders the facility as a 3D scale model, or as a first-person view that renders the facility as a full-scale rendition that simulates the user's presence on the plant floor. Camera icons rendered in the VR presentation can be selected to switch to a live video stream generated by 360-degree cameras within the plant. The system can also render workflow presentations that guide users through the process of correcting detected maintenance issues.

A method for managing the display on a screen of an electronic device of at least one item of information relating to an apparatus. The method includes providing an enriched image of the apparatus, including an image of the apparatus and interest points of the apparatus, choosing at least one interest point from among the plurality of interest points, for obtaining a set of chosen interest points, selecting information to be displayed, providing a set of diagrams of the apparatus available for the apparatus, optimizing, according to a predefined criterion, each diagram of the apparatus available by inserting into the diagram of the apparatus a preview of information to be displayed for obtaining an enriched schematic representation, and classifying the enriched schematic representations according to the predefined criterion.

A terminal for processing facilities having a communication device arranged to exchange information about the processing facility with a communication partner, a screen arranged to display the information about the processing facility, a position sensor arranged to collect alignment information relating to an alignment of the terminal and a processor arranged to control the communication device, the screen and the position sensor. The functionality of the terminal is extended by the fact that the processor sets a function of the terminal dependent on alignment information from the position sensor.

A mechanism is provided for indicating an area of an object that is considered dangerous to a user via a head mounted display (HMD) system. The object being used by the user and one or more areas of the object that are considered dangerous are identified. Responsive to identifying one or more areas of the object that are considered dangerous, an overlay for each of the one or more areas of the object that are considered dangerous is generated. The overlay for each one or more areas of the object that are considered dangerous is displayed via a display layer of the HMD system so that the one or more areas of the object that are considered dangerous are identified as an overlay to the object that is being seen by the user through the HMD system.

The present disclosure relates to a method for facilitating monitoring and control of an industrial process by means of a portable device comprising a projector arranged to project process graphics associated with process components of the industrial process. The method comprises a) obtaining, by means of the portable device, process component identification data of a process component; b) obtaining distance data for determining a distance between the portable device and the process component; and c) obtaining a process graphics image based on the process component identification data and the distance data for projection by the portable device, wherein the process graphics image is associated with a portion of the industrial process comprising the process component, and wherein information contained in the process graphics image is based on the distance between the portable device and the process component. The present disclosure further relates to a computer program and to a portable device.

A method and system to increase operator awareness for process control application providing operators team real time information on controlled process and equipment immersing them into augmented and virtual reality, provided by a computing system which collects and integrates data from process and equipment, leaving equipment, controls, and procedure unmodified. The method is creating an augmented and virtual reality for the operating crew, giving them real time supplementary information based on two types of simulation, one using models and one using process data and learning procedures, together with rich equipment data, equipment locator, enhanced communication and enhanced data acquisition from supplementary sources as surface and airborne robotic and operator headset additional equipment meant to monitor operator bio-parameters and operator's surrounding environment in order to assure that control is sound and sober, and operators are safe and secure all time providing an optimum high efficiency operation of the controlled process.