Augmented reality as a tool for visualization of ultrasound propagation in heterogeneous media based on the k-space method

Abstract

For programming the AR tools, interactive objects and creating the markers, the method of fiber spaces (k-space) for modeling of ultrasonic wave propagation in an inhomogeneous medium using coarse grids, with maintaining the required accuracy was used. The algorithm and tools of augmented reality were introduced into the adaptive control system of the pulp gas phase in the iron ore flotation process using a control action on the basis of high-energy ultrasound dynamic effects generated by ultrasonic phased arrays. The tools of augmented reality based on k-space methods allow to facilitate wider adoption of ultrasound technology and visualize the ultra-sound propagation in heterogeneous media by providing a specific correspondence between the ultrasound data acquired in real- time and a sufficiently detailed augmented 3D scene. The tools of augmented reality allow seeing the field of ultrasound propagation, its characteristics, as well as the effect of the dynamic effects of ultrasound on the change in the gas phase during the flotation process.