Industrial Augmented Reality – Concept for an AR-AI-Station for Component Recovery from Washing Machines for Circular Economy

Using Augmented Reality (AR) in the production of home appliances is an understudied field, even more its use in circular economy. Further, also the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for validating that an AR instructed task was actually carried out correctly is an underexplored area. In this work we present the novel concept for an AR disassembly station to recover parts from returned washing machines in a circular economy approach, validating that the disassembly is carried out correctly using a YOLO-based AI model. A last challenge, tackled in this work resulting from the circular economy background, is the adaptability of the AR instructions that need to change depending on the varying conditions of the recovered parts in units of the same model.