An augmented reality-assisted system for wiring harness assembly in confined spaces
摘要
Aircraft wiring harness assembly remains highly manual, and existing AR-assisted studies mainly address planar routing on formboards rather than spatial routing in confined spaces. This work presents an AR-assisted wiring harness assembly system that integrates assembly guidance and online inspection for confined-space operations. Key assembly information is extracted from engineers’ virtual assembly to generate AR guidance instructions, which are overlaid onto physical assembly locations through a marker + stereo visual-inertial joint localization method. A machine vision-based bending-radius measurement method is also developed to support online quality inspection during assembly. Functional experiments validate the proposed joint localization and bending-radius measurement methods, and a user study using a fighter jet cockpit wiring harness assembly task evaluates system usability. Compared with traditional documentation guidance, the proposed system significantly accelerates assembly, reduces assembly errors, improves perceived ease-of-use, and alleviates workers’ workload.