Ultra portable augmented reality for industrial maintenance applications (ULTRA)
16 September 2004 - 17 September 2004
Germany
To overcome these limitations, the Specific Targeted Research Project ULTRA (Ultra portable augmented reality for industrial maintenance applications), selected under Call 2 of the EU FP6 Information Society Technologies R&D Programme (IST), will be launched on 16-17 September 2004 in Darmstadt/Germany. ULTRA aims at implementing augmented-reality based solutions for industrial maintenance tasks. The projects main goal is to make augmented-reality solutions usable on lightweight mobile devices from an engineering, ergonomic and economic point of view. By implementing augmented reality techniques on handheld devices and delivering images on near-eye displays, a very lightweight system will be developed.
"The market of 3D graphics for handheld devices, such as pocket-PC or mobile phone is coming. These devices are perfect for mobile augmented reality applications. They are very light, people are used to them and they contain all the functionalities we require, including camera and phone connection" says Didier Stricker from Fraunhofers Institute for Computer Graphics (IGD) in Darmstadt/Germany and coordinator of the project.
The result of the project will be a highly compact system with appropriate software for authoring, workflow edition, context management, tele-consultation and augmented reality. ULTRA will enable an efficient production of electronic augmented reality manuals, and an efficient on-site support for mobile workers.
"It is very important to consider the complete process and everything starts with the generation of the digital information. That's why authoring and data management will be as important in ULTRA as the runtime system" says Dr. Stricker.
Next to Fraunhofers IGD, which will coordinate the project, the consortium comprises three European companies and a research institute from Singapore. The project is envisaged to run over a period of 30 months until early 2006, with total EU funding support of up to 1.7 million.Project coordinator:,Dr. Didier Stricker,E-Mail: stricker@igd.fraunhofer.de,Tel: +49 6151 155 188<br>Technical coordinator:,Jens Weidenhausen,E-Mail: weidenh@igd.fraunhofer.de,Tel: +49 6151 155 278,
"The market of 3D graphics for handheld devices, such as pocket-PC or mobile phone is coming. These devices are perfect for mobile augmented reality applications. They are very light, people are used to them and they contain all the functionalities we require, including camera and phone connection" says Didier Stricker from Fraunhofers Institute for Computer Graphics (IGD) in Darmstadt/Germany and coordinator of the project.
The result of the project will be a highly compact system with appropriate software for authoring, workflow edition, context management, tele-consultation and augmented reality. ULTRA will enable an efficient production of electronic augmented reality manuals, and an efficient on-site support for mobile workers.
"It is very important to consider the complete process and everything starts with the generation of the digital information. That's why authoring and data management will be as important in ULTRA as the runtime system" says Dr. Stricker.
Next to Fraunhofers IGD, which will coordinate the project, the consortium comprises three European companies and a research institute from Singapore. The project is envisaged to run over a period of 30 months until early 2006, with total EU funding support of up to 1.7 million.Project coordinator:,Dr. Didier Stricker,E-Mail: stricker@igd.fraunhofer.de,Tel: +49 6151 155 188<br>Technical coordinator:,Jens Weidenhausen,E-Mail: weidenh@igd.fraunhofer.de,Tel: +49 6151 155 278,