Augmented Reality for Managing Nuclear Infrastructure and Operations - 19605

Conference · Mon Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 2019

OSTI ID:23005450

Mascarenas, David; Harden, Troy; Morales, John; Boardman, Beth; Sosebee, Erin; Blackhart, Craig; Cattaneo, Alessandro; Krebs, Matthew; Tockstein, Jameson; Trujillo, Julio; Wysong, Andrew ^[1]; Manring, Levi ^[2]; Pederson, John ^[3]; Potts, Dillon ^[4]; Moreu, Fernando; Maharjan, Dilendra; Aguero, Marlon; Fernandez, Ricardo ^[5]

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1. Los Alamos National Laboratory (United States)
2. Duke University (United States)
3. Columbia University (United States)
4. Brigham Young University (United States)
5. University of New Mexico (United States)

Emerging augmented reality tools offer great promise for helping manage nuclear infrastructure throughout its life cycle. These tools have the ability to provide operators with actionable holographic information as they work. Perhaps more excitingly these tools also feature sensors that provide the ability to document work at very high spatial resolution. These sensors include onboard cameras as well as active infrared sensors that can capture 3D geometry information on-the-fly. Coupling the visualization and sensing tools provided by augmented reality headsets with computational intelligence opens up many exciting new possibilities for managing nuclear infrastructure throughout its life cycle. In this presentation we show a number of examples of how augmented reality tools can be incorporated into the management of nuclear infrastructure. We show examples of using augmented reality as a human-machine interface for robotic control, and we show examples of augmented reality being interfaced with external sensors. Finally, we show how these sensing and visualization capabilities of augmented reality can be interfaced with intelligent algorithms to help operators perform their work in nuclear facilities. The goal of the work is to spark discussions on how emerging augmented reality tools can help enable the next generation of efficient, high-performance nuclear infrastructure. (authors)

• Research Organization: WM Symposia, Inc., PO Box 27646, 85285-7646 Tempe, AZ (United States)
• OSTI ID: 23005450
• Report Number(s): INIS-US-21-WM-19605; TRN: US21V1377045784
• Resource Relation: Conference: WM2019: 45. Annual Waste Management Conference, Phoenix, AZ (United States), 3-7 Mar 2019; Other Information: Country of input: France; 6 refs.; available online at: https://www.xcdsystem.com/wmsym/2019/index.html
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE WASTES, AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES
42 ENGINEERING
CAMERAS
GEOMETRY
HOLOGRAPHY
LIFE CYCLE
MAN-MACHINE SYSTEMS
NUCLEAR FACILITIES
PROGRAM MANAGEMENT
REMOTE SENSING
SENSORS
SPATIAL RESOLUTION
THREE-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS