FabNavi is a support system to capture assembling processes with videos/pictures and replaying data on (remote) tabletop. The system records works on tabletop with an overhead camera, and presents full scale videos/pictures on the tabletop (Figure 1).
The FabNavi system proposes visual instruction to assemble physical objects in remote places: (1) Recording the assembly processes easily, (2) Sharing these instruction on the web, (3) Replaying them on the (remote) tabletop (Figure 2).
![](http://tsuka-lab.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/fabnavi03.png)
The system also aims to collect data of FAB processes in the real world, understand them using recognition techniques, and generate “recipes” (semi-) automatically (Figure 3).
![](http://tsuka-lab.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/fabnavi-ml-1024x364.png)
Implementation
The FabNavi system mainly consists of (1) API server, (2) Capture client, (3) Browser Client.
- API Server
- Running on Amazon EC2 & S3. Ready for Big data.
- Capture Client
- iPhone & Android Client.
- Browser Client
- Electron App both for Win/Mac.
Applications will be delivered on http://fabnavi.org/
![](https://tsuka-lab.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/fabnavi.png)
Project Members
- Core
- Koji Tsukada (Associate Prof., Future Univ. Hakodate)
- Keita Watanabe (Associate Prof., Meiji Univ.)
Reference
- Koji Tsukada, Keita Watanabe, Daisuke Akatsuka, and Maho Oki, FabNavi: Support system to assemblephysical objects using visual instructions, Paper presented at Fab10, Barcelona, 2-8 July (2014) [PDF]