To demonstrate the potential of the proposed approach, an
experimental study inspired by industrial inspection applications
is conducted. More specifically, an analog Wattmeter
acts as the structure to be inspected. For this device, a prior
3D model is considered to be available (from a rough CAD
design) but on one hand it is less accurate (consisting only
of 173 mesh faces), and on the other it does not contain
information regarding which part of it is more important.
In real–life however, it is expected that the human operator
would have interest to focus more on the indication of the
Wattmeter device while relying on the robot autonomous
navigation for the rest of the structure. As demonstrated, this
behavior is seamlessly provided through the proposed Augmented
Reality–enhanced aerial robotic inspection solution.