F3M 
Fully Multimodal Maintenance Methods
Description
The goal of the project is to assess the usability of a solution based on wearable computer
connected through a wireless network for improvement of the workflow in the field of maintenance,
for instance for planes in the aviation sector and for trains in the railways sector. Our concept will
equip any field technician with a
mobile wearable computer allowing communication in real time with its colleagues and with a central
server supervising all the field maintenance process and connected with the existing maintenance
database used more traditionally.
We do not limit our system to an only voice communicator system, but we would like to exploit any
multimedia not pervasive interfaces like speech recognition, speech synthesis and wearable
graphical user interface using head mounted screen. Eye tracking and gesture detection will be
also considered integrating the last evolution available for these technologies. To propose an
usable solution to the technician management problem (the right people at the right place at the
right time) we intend to exploit the last indoor positioning technologies based on triangularisation
of wireless array network (WAN) signal.
For any of our solutions, we will study what will be the best trade-off between service localized
on the mobile and on the server and how we can share the computation load as the best.
Purpose
Project F3M gathers three university partners
(TCTS
laboratory at Faculté polytechnique de Mons,
ELECGEN
and
CFAO
laboratories at Université libre
de Bruxelles)
that have complementary know-how in the domains relevant for the project :
multimodal interfaces, signal processing, integration (for TCTS), wireless communication networks
(for ELEGGEN) and knowledge management (for CFAO).
The project will last 3 years and half and aims at
constructing a functional prototype of the complete maintenance system. This will not only mean
designing the multimodal platform but also smartly managing information necessary to the
maintenance actions.
Contact
TCTS
| Name |
Service de théorie des Circuits et de traitement du signal |
| Contact person |
Prof. Joël Hancq |
| Address |
1, Av. Nicolas Copernic 7000 Mons, Belgium |
| email |
joel.hancq@fpms.ac.be |
ELECGEN
| Name |
Service d'Electricité Générale |
| Contact person |
Dr. Philipp De Doncker |
| Address |
50, Av. Franklin Roosvelt, CP 165/51, 1050 Brussel, Belgium |
| email |
pdedonck@ulb.ac.be |
CFAO
| Name |
Service de Mécanique Analytique et CFAO |
| Contact person |
Dr. Pascal Francq |
| Address |
50, Av. Franklin Roosvelt, CP 165/51, 1050 Brussel, Belgium |
| email |
pfrancq@ulb.ac.be |
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