Controlling driverless transport vehicles intuitively with Augmented Reality

Press release – Hannover, 28/09/2020

In future, we will communicate with machines via eye contact, speech and gestures. Scientists at the Institute for Integrated Production Hannover (IPH) gGmbH have developed software that enables the intuitive control of automated guided vehicles (AGVs).
All that is required is AR glasses.

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Mobile human-computer interaction for commissioning and controlling of automated guided vehicles (MobiMMI)

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About the IPH

The IPH – Institut für Integrierte Produktion Hannover gGmbH (which literally translates into Hannover institute of integrated production) is a service provider for production technology and was established in 1988 at the Leibniz University in Hannover. The IPH offers research and development, consultation and qualification concerning the subjects of process technology, production automation and logistics. Its customers include companies from the sectors of tool and mould construction, machine and plant construction, aerospace and the automotive industry, electro industry and forging industry.

The business has its headquarters in the science and technology park – Science Area 30X in the northwest of Hannover and currently employs about 80 people, of which about 30 are scientific personnel.

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Intuitive human-machine interaction

MobiMMI developer Florian Kreutzjans shows how control via AR-glasses works. (Photo: IPH, Susann Reichert)

Control via gestures

IPH employee Viktor Schell moves the Automated Guided Vehicles with a virtual joystick, which is displayed on his AR-Glasses. (Photo: IPH, Beatrix Kamlage)

Gesten- oder Sprachsteuerung mit AR-Brille

Piece by piece the tower is dismantled here

The screenshot shows the user interface for gesture control. Logistics staff only need to grasp the red dot, which serves as a virtual joystick - already they can move the vehicle. (Photo: IPH, Florian Kreutzjans)

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