An AR Application for the Efficient Construction of Water Pipes Buried Underground
Abstract
:1. Introduction
1.1. Background
1.2. Research Objectives
2. System Configuration
2.1. Development Environment
2.2. Implementation of New Registration and Display Functions for Water Pipes
2.2.1. Creation of Water Pipe Model
2.2.2. Plane Detection Function
2.2.3. Application UI Creation
2.3. Acquisition and Display of Current Coordinates and Orientation
2.3.1. Google API Settings
2.3.2. Display of Google Map Corresponding to Your Current Location
2.4. Input and Conversion of Water Pipe Information
2.4.1. GIS (Geographic Information System)
2.4.2. SHP File
2.4.3. Reading Location Information from GIS Data
2.4.4. Conversion from Paper Drawings to Digital Data
3. System Evaluation
3.1. Water Pipe Visualization Results
3.2. Result of Displaying Water Pipe Model
3.3. Results of the Conversion Function from Digital Water Pipe Information to Location Information
3.4. Results of the Conversion Function from Analog Water Pipe Information to Location Information
3.5. Improvement of Location Information Acquisition
3.6. Improvement of Water Pipe AR Display
4. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Conflicts of Interest
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Inoue, K.; Ogake, S.; Kobayashi, K.; Tomura, T.; Mitsui, S.; Satake, T.; Igo, N. An AR Application for the Efficient Construction of Water Pipes Buried Underground. Electronics 2023, 12, 2634. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12122634
Inoue K, Ogake S, Kobayashi K, Tomura T, Mitsui S, Satake T, Igo N. An AR Application for the Efficient Construction of Water Pipes Buried Underground. Electronics. 2023; 12(12):2634. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12122634
Chicago/Turabian StyleInoue, Koki, Shuichiro Ogake, Kazuma Kobayashi, Toyoaki Tomura, Satoshi Mitsui, Toshifumi Satake, and Naoki Igo. 2023. "An AR Application for the Efficient Construction of Water Pipes Buried Underground" Electronics 12, no. 12: 2634. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12122634