Gesture-Based Extraction of Robot Skill Parameters for Intuitive Robot Programming

Despite a lot of research in the field, only very little experience exists with Teaching by Demonstration (TbD) in actual industrial use cases. In the factory of the future, it is necessary to rapidly reprogram flexible mobile manipulators to perform new tasks, when the need arises, for which a work...

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Published in:Journal of intelligent & robotic systems Vol. 80; no. Suppl 1; pp. 149 - 163
Main Authors: Pedersen, Mikkel Rath, Krüger, Volker
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.12.2015
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects:
Artificial Intelligence
Control
Division
Electrical Engineering
Engineering
Industrial applications
Manipulators
Mechanical Engineering
Mechatronics
Parameters
Programming
Robot arms
Robot learning
Robotics
Robots
Specifications
Tasks
Industrial robots
Teaching by demonstration
Robot skills
Gesture recognition
ISSN:0921-0296, 1573-0409
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Summary:Despite a lot of research in the field, only very little experience exists with Teaching by Demonstration (TbD) in actual industrial use cases. In the factory of the future, it is necessary to rapidly reprogram flexible mobile manipulators to perform new tasks, when the need arises, for which a working system capable of TbD would be ideal. Contrary to current TbD approaches, that generally aim to recognize both action and where it is applied, we propose a division of labor, where the operator manually specifies the action the robot should perform, while gestures are used for specifying the relevant action parameter (e.g. on which object to apply the action). Using this two-step method has the advantages that there is no uncertainty of which action the robot will perform, it takes into account that the environment changes, so objects do not need to be at predefined locations, and the parameter specification is possible even for inexperienced users. Experiments with 24 people in 3 different environments verify that it is indeed intuitive, even for a robotics novice, to program a mobile manipulator using this method.
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ISSN:0921-0296
1573-0409
DOI:10.1007/s10846-015-0219-x