Design And Development Of Navigation Based On Augment Reality And Android Platform

Augmented Reality technology, also known as mixed reality, emerges with the development of virtual reality technology and needed on practical using. It is not a new business, which originated from the late of1960s. Because of its character of combination of the reality and virtuality, real-time interaction and3D registration, it is mainly used for expanding the real world information. The real world and the virtual information are combined seamlessly together. So it can enhance people get more information from their views.Location-based navigation information service occupies a very important position in the modern information services. But existing navigation information based on maps requires users to identify geographic direction. It is not intuitive. Before the smart phones appear, the outdoor augmented reality products all need huge equipment and users carry it very inconvenient. Therefore, most people cannot experience the navigation function based on the augmented reality.With the emergence of smart phones, the mobiles with camera immediately become a good platform for outdoor augmented reality technology. And with the smart phones which have GPS and gyroscopes inside becoming more and more powerful, smart phone has become more and more applicable for studying outdoor augmented reality technology. Developing outdoor augmented reality application on smart phone is a front technology. In other countries, many famous schools and companies are in active research and developing. So research on outdoor augmented reality based on smart phone has a very important theoretical significance and technical background.The main goal of this paper is developing a navigation application based on Android platform and augmented reality. According to the characteristics of augmented reality, the author develops this application using Eclipse, SDK and ADT. The function of this application is navigating based on augmented reality, map browsing, search and zoom. This paper also discusses the theory and method of the augmented reality. It also describes the implementation of the application includes the project background, users need analysis, development and design of the client application, functional testing and performance testing.