Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Siemens Industry Software Gmbh

Mehdi Hamadou

Dirk Jahn

Maximilian Walter

Wolfgang Friedrich

Jan Richter

Peter Meier

Karl-Heinz Maier

Soeren Moritz

Werner Hoffmann

Bruno Kiesel

Klaus-Dieter M&uuml;ller

Josef Meixner

Jan-Friso Evers-Senne

Jan-Michael Frahm

Juri Platonov

Didier Stricker

Jens Weidenhausen

A computing system may include a client device and a server. The client device may be configured to access a stream of image frames that depict an environment, determine, from the stream of image frames, environment images that satisfy selection criteria, and transmit the environment images to the server. The server may be configured to receive the environment images from the client device, construct a spatial view of the environment based on position data included with the environment images, and navigate the spatial view, including by receiving a movement direction and progressing from a current environment image depicted for the spatial view to a next environment image based on the movement direction.

Construction of environment views from selectively determined environment images

In a method for the start-up operation of a multi-axis system, with the multi-axis system including, as components, segments connected via respective joints and are movable in one or more axes, and a tool, connected to one of the segments and is movable to a specified position, optical markers are arranged in the environment. Position coordinates of the optical markers in a first, global coordinate system are ascertained and stored in the controller. The environment is captured as image data by a camera system. The image data are transmitted to an AR system and visualized in an output apparatus. The optical markers and virtual markers are represented during the visualization of the image data, wherein a respective virtual marker is assigned to an optical marker. A check is performed as to whether an optical marker and the virtual marker overlay one another in the visualized image data.

Method and apparatus for the start-up operation of a multi-axis system

A method for the start-up operation of a multi-axis system, the multi-axis system having segments which are movable by a controller in one or more axes, and a tool which is connected to one of the segments and is movable and drivable to a specified position by the controller. The method includes assigning a workspace and a safe space to the multi-axis system, arranging optical markers in an environment, making it possible for an augmented reality system to determine the position of a camera system which records the multi-axis system within the environment, defining a bounding body for each of the components such that the bounding body encloses the component, calculating a position of the bounding body during the movement of the multi-axis system, visualizing the bounding bodies together with an image recorded by the camera system, and checking whether the bounding body intersects with the safe space.

A stationary data processing device communicates with a mobile data processing device, such as a client in the field of augmented-reality techniques in an automation system, or a production machine, or a machine tool or parts thereof. The stationary data processing device includes a server for communication with a browser on the mobile data processing device; an information broker for providing context-related information; legacy systems that contain and store information; and an information model that represents the information space and that allows navigation within the information and access to the information by the information broker independent of the legacy systems. The information broker utilizes the actual context, especially location, work situation, EA devices used and the information model.

System and method for communication between a mobile data processing device and a stationary data processing device

A method and a device for determining tracking configurations for augmented reality applications are provided. A determination is automatically carried out based on a list of modules provided in a real environment and known tracking data of individual modules of the list in terms of an online operation at an operator of a system.

Method and device for generating tracking configurations for augmented reality applications

The invention relates to a system for determining the position of a user and/or a moving device by means of tracking methods, in particular for augmented reality applications, with an interface () to integrate at least one sensor type and/or data generator () of a tracking method, a configuration unit () to describe communication between the tracking methods and/or tracking algorithms and at least one processing unit () to calculate the position of the user and/or the moving device based on the data supplied by the tracking methods and/or tracking algorithms.

System and method for determining a position, in particular for augmented reality applications

A system and method for augmnented reality documentation of a work process such as production, installation, or maintenance. A camera records images of objects in the work process. A tracking mechanism determines the position and orientation of the camera relative to points in space. A mobile computer at the workstation processes the camera images and the position and orientation of the camera, and relays this information to a remote computer system. A technical editor uses the remote computer system to supplement the image data with symbols and text assigned to points in space, producing support documentation for the work process. This information may be displayed on goggles on a service technician perforiming the work, making the support documentation appear as if displayed in space adjacent to the objects in a workflow sequence to guide the technician.

System and method for establishing a documentation of working processes for display in an augmented reality system in particular in a production assembly service or maintenance environment

A system () and an associated method for a dynamic management of information data. The information data are in the form of information sources I of a virtual device K, which includes a plurality of virtual subcomponents T. . . Tn. The virtual device K represents a real device (), for instance an industrial facility. A comprehensive overview of the entire system as well as specific views of the subcomponents of the device are achieved in that the virtual subcomponents are embedded as programs and/or data in a networking frame structure. Therein, the virtual subcomponents correspond to technological structures of the real device (). The system has a data processing device () to manage the information data I associated with the virtual device K and to control access to the information data I. Local and/or global addresses are assigned to the virtual device K and its virtual subcomponents T. . . Tn. These addresses allow a user to perform a component-based navigation and a model-based navigation in different views S. . . SN of the system.

System having a model-based user interface for operating and monitoring a device and a method therefor

Analog test signals may be picked up from the test object with vibration sensors. A computer is equipped with a standard interface card which is connected by an interface, preferably parallel interface, and serves to digitize the test signals. A switching means serves to generate a trigger signal which can be input over a preferably serial interface. An executive routine in the computer switches the input of test signals on and off via the trigger signal.

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Erlangen, Germany

Mehdi Hamadou