An AR Application for the Efficient Construction of Water Pipes Buried Underground

Unlike other civil engineering works, water pipe works require digging out before construction because the construction site is buried. The AR application is a system that displays buried objects in the ground in three dimensions when users hold a device such as a smartphone over the ground, using i...

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Main Authors: Koki Inoue, Shuichiro Ogake, Kazuma Kobayashi, Toyoaki Tomura, Satoshi Mitsui, Toshifumi Satake, Naoki Igo
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Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2023-06-01
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/12/12/2634
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author Koki Inoue
Shuichiro Ogake
Kazuma Kobayashi
Toyoaki Tomura
Satoshi Mitsui
Toshifumi Satake
Naoki Igo
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description Unlike other civil engineering works, water pipe works require digging out before construction because the construction site is buried. The AR application is a system that displays buried objects in the ground in three dimensions when users hold a device such as a smartphone over the ground, using images from the smartphone. The system also registers new buried objects when they are updated. The target of this project is water pipes, which are the most familiar of all buried structures. The system has the following functions: “registration and display of new water pipe information” and “acquisition and display of current location coordinate information.” By applying the plane detection function to data acquired from a camera mounted on a smartphone, the system can easily register and display a water pipe model horizontally to the ground. The system does not require a reference marker because it uses GPS and the plane detection function. In the future, the system will support the visualization and registration of not only water pipes but also other underground infrastructures and will play an active role in the rapid restoration of infrastructure after a large-scale disaster through the realization of a buried-object 3D MAP platform.
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spelling doaj.art-9090be38173e471991b7c024b72bacca2023-11-18T10:08:29ZengMDPI AGElectronics2079-92922023-06-011212263410.3390/electronics12122634An AR Application for the Efficient Construction of Water Pipes Buried UndergroundKoki Inoue0Shuichiro Ogake1Kazuma Kobayashi2Toyoaki Tomura3Satoshi Mitsui4Toshifumi Satake5Naoki Igo6Toyohashi University of Technology, Toyohashi 441-8580, JapanJapan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Nomi 923-1292, JapanNational Institute of Technology, Asahikawa College, Asahikawa 079-8501, JapanNational Institute of Technology, Asahikawa College, Asahikawa 079-8501, JapanNational Institute of Technology, Asahikawa College, Asahikawa 079-8501, JapanNational Institute of Technology, Asahikawa College, Asahikawa 079-8501, JapanNational Institute of Technology, Asahikawa College, Asahikawa 079-8501, JapanUnlike other civil engineering works, water pipe works require digging out before construction because the construction site is buried. The AR application is a system that displays buried objects in the ground in three dimensions when users hold a device such as a smartphone over the ground, using images from the smartphone. The system also registers new buried objects when they are updated. The target of this project is water pipes, which are the most familiar of all buried structures. The system has the following functions: “registration and display of new water pipe information” and “acquisition and display of current location coordinate information.” By applying the plane detection function to data acquired from a camera mounted on a smartphone, the system can easily register and display a water pipe model horizontally to the ground. The system does not require a reference marker because it uses GPS and the plane detection function. In the future, the system will support the visualization and registration of not only water pipes but also other underground infrastructures and will play an active role in the rapid restoration of infrastructure after a large-scale disaster through the realization of a buried-object 3D MAP platform.https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/12/12/2634water pipesAR applicationplane detection3D MAP platform
spellingShingle Koki Inoue
Shuichiro Ogake
Kazuma Kobayashi
Toyoaki Tomura
Satoshi Mitsui
Toshifumi Satake
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An AR Application for the Efficient Construction of Water Pipes Buried Underground
Electronics
water pipes
AR application
plane detection
3D MAP platform
title An AR Application for the Efficient Construction of Water Pipes Buried Underground
title_full An AR Application for the Efficient Construction of Water Pipes Buried Underground
title_fullStr An AR Application for the Efficient Construction of Water Pipes Buried Underground
title_full_unstemmed An AR Application for the Efficient Construction of Water Pipes Buried Underground
title_short An AR Application for the Efficient Construction of Water Pipes Buried Underground
title_sort ar application for the efficient construction of water pipes buried underground
topic water pipes
AR application
plane detection
3D MAP platform
url https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/12/12/2634
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