EMPOWER

Presentation

EMPOWER aims to revolutionize workplace safety through cutting-edge XR technologies. With a clear market need and a strong value proposition, EMPOWER is confident in the ability to drive significant improvements in safety and operational efficiency across various high-risk industries.

The outcomes of EMPOWER are dedicated to the training of human workforce (unskilled and advanced human operators, experts) in industrial environments to ensure the assistance and enhancement of their learning experience towards these topics in human-robot interactive applications.

The envisaged modular XR-based tool comprises sub-modules for real-time visualization, digital assistant, HRC knowledge base, data gathering and safety and ergonomics assessment purposes. The modularity approach will enable the adaptability of the developed tool addressing comparable safety-critical industrial scenarios

Technology

We will implement the project with commercially available VR or AR tools (e.g. Unity or UNREAL) and on commercially available hardware (e.g. HTC Vive, HoloLens II).

Integration into the Master XR platform takes place via the interfaces provided.

EMPOWER will contribute to the implementation of MASTER platform tools by:

  • promoting a novel pedagogical / training approach
  • training in real industrial applications

to be implemented in the form of an XR-based digital assistant focusing on the imperative topics: safety and ergonomics in safety-critical industrial workplaces such as HRC assembly processes.