Nuclear Decommissioning Management using Building Information Modeling and Augmented Reality

Integrating augmented reality (AR) technology with decommissioning workflows will open new avenues to remotely visualize and interact with Building Information Models (BIMs), enabling safe and cost-effective decommissioning processes of nuclear power plant (NPP) structures. Research is proposed here to advance new NPP decommissioning workflows through novel sensing, computing, and artificial intelligence (AI) methods within the framework of BIMs, AR, and data fusion. BIM stores digital information of the current state of assets and structures, as well as physical systems, and services such as maintenance operations and safety inspections. AR technology can overlay digital information on BIM into the physical environments. In this project, the intern will focus on enabling automated digitization of assets and the development of three-dimensional, semantically enriched BIMs and explore how engineers augment and interact with BIMs using AR to streamline and improve existing NPP decommissioning workflows.

Faculty Supervisor:

Chul Min Yeum;Carl Haas

Student:

Partner:

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Inc (Brampton, ON)

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Waterloo

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