Handheld Augmented Reality in Civil Engineering

In proceedings of Rosus09 conference, pages 19-25

This paper presents an overview of a project focusing on research
on the next-generation field information system for utility companies, providing
mobile workforces with capabilities for on-site inspection and planning. For
achieving this aim, handheld Augmented Reality technology is used for on-site
visualization of geometric and semantic attributes of geospatial 3D models on
the user’s handheld device. The project aims at providing a fully functional
handheld Augmented Reality device for utility field workers. A software
solution that can visualize registered three-dimensional underground models in
real time has been developed. Registration in 3D requires being able to
perform accurate global localization and posing tracking in real time without
relying on unrealistic assumptions concerning prior scene knowledge. The
generation of such three-dimensional underground models will be discussed as
well as an overview of the fields of application will be given.

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