Hands-free wearable system for helping in assembly tasks in aerospace

Abstract

Maintenance operations have a great

impact on the safety and life expectancy

of any product. This is especially true

for certain applications within the

aerospace industry, which must pass

rigorous security checking procedures.

Wearable helping systems can help

to reduce costs and working time by

guiding workers in some specifi c and

diffi cult tasks. The purpose of this work

is developing a handless and wearable

guided system that supports and helps

workers in assembly and verifi cation

tasks within the aeronautic fi eld. The

worker is able to request information

for the specifi c task in a non invasive

way and also ask the Team Leader

for real time technical support and

assistance. The system developed has

been tested in an aeronautic company

(Airbus Military) and its implementation

in specifi c assembly tasks assessed. It

was found that the proposed system can

help workers to make their tasks faster,

more accurate and more secure.