SULTEK OPTICALS

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SULTEK OPTICALS builds a wearable vision system for work inside blind, confined spaces. The technician wears smart glasses and a wrist camera: the hand goes into the cavity, the live view appears in their field of vision, both hands free. Today this work is done by feel, through a port too small for a head in pressure vessels, piping, turbine casings and aerospace structures. Founded by an ex-COMAC engineer who designed the assembly station where this problem lives. Working prototype today.

Problem

Skilled maintenance and assembly work routinely happens where the operator cannot see. A pressure vessel, a pump casing, a manifold or an aircraft pylon is accessed through a port too small for a person's head the hand fits, the line of sight does not. The operator then works by feel: searching for the feature, positioning the part blind, pulling back out to reposition the body, and reaching in again until it seats. The time is lost in the search and the positioning, not in the actual fastening or inspection. The alternatives are all costly. Entering the space requires a permit, gas testing, a standby attendant and often scaffolding. Cutting a larger access opening trades away structural strength. A held endoscope occupies one of the two hands the job requires. And because the operation is done by feel, it produces no record the result is written up afterwards from recollection.

Solution

SULTEK OPTICALS replaces blind reach with direct sight. A camera mounted on the wrist, with its own LED illumination, sees exactly what the hand is doing deep inside the structure. The feed streams into smart glasses in the operator's line of vision, so nothing has to be held and no repositioning of the head or body is needed. Thumb gestures aim and operate the camera without letting go of the work. The result is that operations currently done by touch become operations done by sight, with both hands on the task and each session leaves a captured video record attached to the asset instead of a line in a logbook.

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