Drift correction for industrial augmented reality applications

This application concerns a method for facilitating creation of a map of a real-world, process control environment, the method comprising: tracking locations of the mobile device as the user moves through the mapped environment, capturing, by a camera of the mobile device, images of the mapped environment as the user moves through the mapped environment, receiving an indication that the user intends to add a node to the map, providing one or more images of the captured images to a machine leaming (ML) model, the ML model being trained to process images to recognize object types, predicting, by the ML model processing the one or more images, an object type corresponding to a specific object within a field of view of the camera and causing a display of the mobile device to superimpose, on a real-world view presented to the user, an indication of the predicted object type to facilitate user designation of a descriptor for the new node.