Wearable Brain-Computer Interface for Augmented Reality-Based Inspection in Industry 4.0

摘要

In the past two decades, augmented reality (AR) has gained great interest in the technical-scientific community and much effort has been made to overcome its limitations in daily use. The main industrial operations in which AR is applied are training, inspections, diagnostics, assembly-disassembly, and repair. These operations usually require the user's hands to be free from the AR device controller. Despite hand-held devices, such as tablets, smart glasses can guarantee hand-free operations with their high wearability. The combination of AR with a brain-computer interface (BCI) can provide the solution: BCI is capable of interpreting human intentions by measuring user neuronal activity. In this talk, the most interesting results of this technological research effort, as well as its further most recent developments, are reviewed. In particular, after a short survey on research at the University of Naples Federico II in cooperation with CERN, the presentation focuses mainly on state-of-the-art research on a wearable monitoring system. AR glasses are integrated with a trainingless non-invasive single-channel BCI, for inspection in the framework of Industry 4.0. A case study at CERN for robotic inspection in hazardous sites is also reported.