Head-mounted display augmented reality in manufacturing : A systematic review

• Head-mounted display (HMD) augmented reality (AR) has attracted more and more attention in manufacturing activities, as it enables operators to access visual guidance in front of their view directly while freeing human's two hands. Nevertheless, HMD AR has not been widely adopted in manufacturing fields as humans expected since the release of Google Glass in 2012, and thus it is important to understand the related issues arising from the actual deployments of HMD AR on the shop floor. To the best of the authors' knowledge, there have not been comprehensive discussions on HMD AR in manufacturing from a holistic perspective. This article aims to provide an extensive map for the distribution of HMD AR in various manufacturing activities and a systematic overview of underlying technical perspectives associated with their actual industrial applications between 2010 and 2022, involving AR visualization, tracking and registration, context awareness, human-machine interaction, as well as ergonomics and usability, which are significant for the actual AR deployments for human-centric manufacturing in Industry 5.0. It is also worth mentioning that this work presents a historical overview of the current research on the development of HMD AR, as well as a summary of the existing methods and open problems for HMD AR in manufacturing. It is helpful to understand the current technical situations of HMD AR while providing insights to deploy industrial AR applications and perform academic research in the future.

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TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Maskinteknik -- Produktionsteknik, arbetsvetenskap och ergonomi (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Mechanical Engineering -- Production Engineering, Human Work Science and Ergonomics (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Augmented reality

Head-mounted display

Intelligent manufacturing

Systematic review

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