Augmented Reality Supports Subsea Tasks
Oceaneering International is a subsea engineering and applied technology company based in Houston, Texas that has been exploring the use of Augmented Reality for risk reduction and improved job execution in offshore operations.
In this article published in the November 2015 issue of Offshore Engineer magazine, Mark Stevens and Bob Moschetta provide an overview of the subsea engineering projects that could benefit from Augmented Reality. They provide in-depth descriptions of the use of AR for situational awareness, training and control of equipment. They compare subsea use cases to those suggested by the civil aviation community, such as flight path visualization.
The authors conclude that “increased visualization of how the job is supposed to occur provides the opportunity for the continuous improvement cycle to be used as equipment, process or work instructions can be modified based upon the virtual testing of executing the job, thereby reducing the risk and improving efficiency.”