Azeem Lodhi

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Improving Situational Awareness using Augmented Reality 
 
 This work is focused on improving situational awareness in highly stressful environments such as 
 battlefields and is a RAC collaborative research project. The system is a deployment of a cloud 
 based server capable of receiving information from the sensors that are geographically dispersed  
 with an application that uses augmented reality (AR) to enable a soldier to visualize the targets in the surrounding environment. The server receives the information about the targets (real-world coordinates, heading and altitude)  and stores it into a database whereas the client's side is capable of displaying the information making it relevant to the user's field of view (FoV).  
 Some features  of the system are: 
 • A server side module to listen for data and write it to a database for side by side insertions and 
 retrievals.  
 • An iOS application capable of representing information in the user's environment using AR. 
 • A mechanism for filtering information, allowing only a subset of information for a FoV. 
 • A mechanism for interacting with the objects that augment the user's environment. 
 • A UI design that is easy to learn and use for the target users. 
 • An approach for handling true north orientations of targets and their viewing angles.  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Technology Used: 
 Swift, Xcode, MongoDB, ARKit, Colasoft, Python  
 Supervisor Name: 
 Dr. Amna Basharat 
 Group Members:   
 Ahsan Bashir (i16 - 0071) 
 Faraz Saeed (i16 - 0107) 
 Azeem Lodhi (i16 - 0202)