Dissertação - Augmented Reality for Enhanced Data and Information Visualization in Robotics Research

The work will be organized according to the following plan:

1. Literature review of the state of the art on AR for robotics;
2. Identification of possible usage scenarios and requirements;
3. Familiarization with Virtual and Augmented Reality SDKs, APIs and Devices - ROS, Unity, Vuforia, OpenCV, etc;
4. Iterative design and development of prototypes;
5. Continuous evaluation and testing of the developed prototypes to demonstrate their usefulness;
6. Writing the Dissertation.

Work report:

Week 03/10 - 09/10

• Objective: First meeting with the advisors. See some tutorials about Augmented Reality
• Talk about what I'll be doing and some tips to help me through it all

Week 10/10 - 16/10

• Objective: Second meeting with advisors
• Talk about what papers I can read and where to find them
• Mention of some Dissertações from previous years that I should read

Semana 17/10 - 22/10

• Objective: Prepare a PowerPoint using the template provided to give an introduction to my Dissertation
• Final: Filled in what I knew but there is still some elements missing.

Semana 24/10 - 29/10

• Objective:
  • Read a thesis from a previous year in a simular field
  • Do a simple unity project using augmented reality
• Final:
  • Read about half of the thesis. Decided to abandon it as it was poorly written.
  • Finished the simple project but though to a bug, could not run it. (Asking for help with the teachers)

Semana 31/10 - 04/11

• Objective:
  • Read a paper
  • Fix the bug
• Final:
  • Read half-way through the paper
  • Fixed some other set-up problems within Unity but the original one persists

Semana 07/11 - 11/11

• Objective:
  • Try to fix that set-up situation
  • Start doing a first implementation of a control guided robot in unity (without the use of the simulation)
  • Finish reading the paper
• Final
  • Fixed the bug, but had to format the laptop and it used a lot of time to set everything back up.
  • Read a different paper

Semana 21/11 - 25/11

• Objective:
  • Implementation of a basic movement button in AR
  • Conclude finishing reading the paper
  • Start doing a new Unity vuforia tutorial
• Final:
  • Implemented a button to make basic movement
  • Implementation of full movement controls (Not final)
  • Use of AR and mobile GUI in unison
  • Porting app to devices
  • Organization of scholar papers
  • Set-up of Mendeley
  • Re-visited previous read thesis and papers to bring 4their notes to the new program (Foxit)
  • Continuation of tutorial for Vuforia

Semana 28/11 - 2/12

• Objective:
  • Expand on the UI
  • Finish reading the article
  • Start writting thesis
  • Iniciate the new tutorial
• Final:
  • Did and watched various tutorials to gather the knowledge needed to implement some of what I wanted.
  • Studied an example program to use the buttons from it for my app.
  • Searched for a new, better, model of SPOT to use in unity
  • Implemented virtual arrow to point to the robot
  • Implemented better buttons for robot control
  • Implemented a card with some details about the robot
  • Linked the details to the robot controls so it updates with the necessary information.
  • Didn't finish the paper but read more of it.

Semana 05/12 - 09/12

• Objective:
  • Expand on the UI
  • Finish reading the article
  • Start reading next article
  • Iniciate the new tutorial
• Final:
  • Finished reading article
  • Finished reading other article
  • Began writting thesis

Semana 12/12 - 16/12

• Objective:
  • Read another scholar paper
  • Implement a gaming aspect to the app
  • Change movement buttons to joysticks
• Final:
  • Finished another scholar paper
  • Implemented a gaming aspect to the app. Timer and score.
  • Changed movement buttons to joysticks and did the necessary changes to make it work

Semana 19/12 - 23/12

• Objective:
  • Plan out the pre-dissertion organization
  • Implement a virtual button to highlight the different parts of the robot
  • Implement a augmented reality tutorial to perform real-life tasks on a robot with the use of photos, arrows and highlighted parts
• Final:
  • Planed out the pre-dissertion organization
  • Implemented a virtual button to highlight the different parts of the robot
  • Implemented a augmented reality tutorial to perform real-life tasks on a robot with the use of photos, arrows and highlighted parts

Semana 26/12 - 30/12

• Objective:
  • Highlight bug fix (It would highlight the entire robot instead of a single part)
  • Timer, UI, Highlight ajustements
  • Link information about the robot to the AR information Dashboard to update in real time.
• Final:
• Highlight bug fix
  • Timer, UI, Highlight ajustements
  • Linked information about the robot to the AR information Dashboard to update in real time.

Semana 2/01 - 6/1

• Objective:
  • Read of some more scholar papers
  • Writte State-Of-The-Art and Introduction
• Final:
  • Finish reading more scholar papers
• Wrote State-Of-The-Art and Introduction

Semana 9/01 - 13/1

• Objective:
  • Read another scholar paper
  • Re-writte and expanded State-Of-The-Art
  • Fix various errors throughout the document
  • Clean up of the Document
• Final:
  • Finish reading one scholar paper
• Re-writte and expanded State-Of-The-Art
  • Fix various errors throughout the document (Spelling, misconcept about certain rules to write the document, etc)
  • Clean up of the Document (Index, image captions, bibliography)

Semana 16/01 - 20/1

• Objective:
  • Prepare Gantt Diagram
  • Write Work-Plan portion
• Final:
  • Prepare Gantt Diagram
  • Wrote Work-Plan potion