ARTab - using Virtual and Augmented Reality Methods for an improved Situation Awareness for Telemaintenance*

:In practice, remote maintenance of industrial manipulators is performed via telephone support. Recent research in context of “Industry 4.0” or Industrial Internet use internet technologies and Augmented Reality to enhance the situation awareness of external experts. With remote analysis, maintenance scenarios like failure detection and optimization can be performed without traveling to the production site. In this paper, we present a mobile Augmented Reality architecture with a tablet PC and a high precision localization system. Remote experts can walk around the virtual plant to understand the production process and the machine context. We compare this method with other methods using virtual reality and video.