Interactive Sensor Dashboard for Smart Manufacturing
This work addresses the need for better sensor data visualization tools for manufacturing professionals, but it is incremental as it builds on existing dashboard and VR technologies.
This paper tackled the problem of visualizing sensor data in smart manufacturing by developing an interactive dashboard with 2D and 3D modules, and found that haptic feedback significantly improved quantitative interaction metrics in VR, while multimodal feedback enhanced qualitative metrics.
This paper presents development of a smart sensor dashboard for Industry 4.0 encompassing both 2D and 3D visualization modules. In 2D module, we described physical connections among sensors and visualization modules and rendering data on 2D screen. A user study was presented where participants answered a few questions using four types of graphs. We analyzed eye gaze patterns in screen, number of correct answers and response time for all the four graphs. For 3D module, we developed a VR digital twin for sensor data visualization. A user study was presented evaluating the effect of different feedback scenarios on quantitative and qualitative metrics of interaction in the virtual environment. We compared visual and haptic feedback and a multimodal combination of both visual and haptic feedback for VR environment. We found that haptic feedback significantly improved quantitative metrics of interaction than a no feedback case whereas a multimodal feedback is significantly improved qualitative metrics of the interaction.