RAPTOR: Augmented Reality to Enhance Inspection & Maintenance for Vehicle Operators

During Preventative Maintenance Checks and Services (PMCS), vehicle operators utilize a largely paper-based checklist process to guide inspections of materiel and equipment using technical manuals that outline recommended procedures.  This presents challenges such as missing or incomplete paper-based technical manuals, difficult access to fault history for a given vehicle, and delays with maintenance approvals and execution. To address this, we will develop RAPTOR, an AR-based decision support system which leverages advances in AR head-mounted displays to provide vehicle operators with an automated set of capabilities to make the inspection-fault detection-fault logging process more efficient (i.e., faster and with reduced errors).  RAPTOR will provide key capabilities including easy lookup of vehicle fault history, locating vehicles on-site, taking hands-free audio/video recordings to share with remote technical experts, and automating the capture of vehicle inspections.  Data collected will be made available to depot managers (through a RAPTOR mobile app) to monitor the fault identification and verification process in real-time and providing data for greater insights into overall materiel readiness at a depot.