Replacing Common Picking Devices from Augmented Reality Scenarios at Warehouses by a Laser Projection System

The human worker will still play a major part in the factory of the future. The number of tasks to accomplish is constantly rising in modern production facilities and warehouses, whereas the shortage of skilled workers is increasing. As a result, fewer professionals must work alongside with many roustabouts at highly complex technical systems and in short clock cycles. Therefore, in this paper, we present a laser projection system as a new way of provision of information to guide the worker through the processes. Further, we demonstrate the usage of the system in a common logistic process and compare it with other established interaction modalities.