Innovative human-machine interaction

Innovative human-machine interaction 

In an Industry 4.0 environment, communication becomes increasingly opaque and complex. In a broad stream of data and a tightly mixed network of communication channels, communication processes are difficult to trace. Since degrees of freedom for decision-making are more diverse and partly taken over by autonomous machines and cyber-physical systems, overlap-free and contradictory knowledge bases are no longer guaranteed. What is an autonomous machine doing and why is it doing it? How can workers in production environments also control these autonomous processes, or how can they be integrated into a cooperative approach to independently operating machines? These questions will be answered at the Centre for Industry 4.0 Potsdam.

We show innovative interaction possibilities of the future

The Centre for Industry 4.0 will presents innovative ways of interaction between humans and machines that address the issue of realistic action in tomorrow's industrial environment. In addition to an adaptable presentation of changeable content on touch-capable displays, AR/VR technologies as an interface offer new possibilities. AR technologies realise real-time insights into the state of a production system and anchor visual impressions where they are needed. VR technologies realise spatial insights remotely and decouple the technology user from his own environment. Thus, a focus can easily be directed to any point and environmental conditions can be varied as desired. Three-dimensional visualisations enable barrier-free navigation in all dimensions and two-dimensional boards reduce the flood of information to an interactive overview, by means of which the cyber-physical production system can be controlled by workers in a targeted manner.

We test and evaluate AR/VR techniques

In customer-oriented and individually designed scenarios, the use of novel human-machine interactions can be demonstrated and specific characteristics and advantages for the customer's real production process can be determined. In particular, novel technologies for human-machine interaction can be tested responsibly and safely and evaluated at low cost in a real production context before being introduced.