The Gagarin Aviation Plant in Komsomolsk-on-Amur has started working on a pilot project for assembling and painting aircraft and conducting technical control using Augmented reality (AR) technologies.
According to the leading programmer of the enterprise Valery Timokhin, at the moment these developments are already used for technical control, the task of which is to identify possible deviations at the first stages of assembly. We are talking about using special AR devices that will display documentation and hints when assembling aircraft elements and monitoring.
Another innovation is the use of projectors for more accurate painting of aircraft.
-Pixel painting is used on the Su-57, and it is very important that the painted pixels do not go beyond their borders. Our technology will allow you to install several projectors in a convenient position for painters. Through them, the contours of the painting are projected onto the plane, " Valery Timokhin told TASS.
It should be noted that AR-technologies are already used by the military both in Russia and in other countries. For example, the United States has developed a system for training pilots in air combat. Our specialists are testing a helmet with augmented reality elements for Su-57 pilots, new technologies should make it easier to control the aircraft and aim at the target.
As RG already wrote, it became known earlier that the fifth-generation Checkmate fighter (Su-75) will also be assembled at the aircraft factory in Komsomolsk-on-Amur. It was at this enterprise that a full-size sample was assembled to demonstrate the technologies of a promising single-engine aircraft.
Alexey Ivanov
