Augmented reality applications for nuclear power plant maintenance work

Ishii, Hirotake*; Bian, Z.*; Sekiyama, Tomoki*; Nakai, Toshinori*; Shimoda, Hiroshi*; Izumi, Masanori ; Morishita, Yoshitsugu 

Augmented Reality is one of the promising technologies that will be able to improve efficiency and safety of the nuclear power plant maintenance work. In order to apply the Augmented Reality to the maintenance work, various studies must be done, such as improvement of the tracking technology, improvement of the user interface and human centered evaluation of the Augmented Reality system. The authors have conducted several studies of these issues for almost 5 years. In this paper, a part of these studies are reported.