Martijn Rooker

Dr Martijn Rooker is a senior innovation projects and funding manager at TTTech Computertechnik and TTControl, with a main focus on future autonomous operation of off-highway mobile machinery. His main areas of interest are the interaction between the human and the mobile machinery using XR technology, and enabling autonomy on these future off-highway machines. He has been involved in European and nationally funded projects for almost 20 years and currently coordinates the THEIA-XR project funded by the European Commission, where the aim is to make the invisible visible and the unperceivable perceivable for off-highway machinery using XR technologies.

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Presentation

THEIA-XR – effective extended realities in machine operation

This presentation disseminates the results of the EU-funded THEIA-XR R&D project, which explored and applied a set of extended reality (XR) technologies based on systematical use case analysis of work procedures in snow groomer, reach stacker and excavator operation. We prototypically iterated XR solutions that involve available digital data, novel sensors, projection, ambient light feedback, video augmentation and external displays to explore where XR technologies can help operators to be faster and more accurate, and increase the use of digital data and assistive functions. This presentation summarizes our first results and insights on effectively improving machine operation through XR technologies.