Title :
Human-robot cooperation: safe pick-and-place operations
Author :
Gecks, Thorsten ; Henrich, Dominik
Author_Institution :
Lehrstuhl fur Angewandte Informatik III, Bayreuth Univ., Germany
Abstract :
We present an industrial robot system whose workspace is supervised by several stationary cameras to ensure safe human-robot cooperations. All robot transfer motions are checked for collision by detecting obstacles using a difference image method. Whenever a collision is detected, the robot motion path is changed accordingly. The presented algorithm enables robots to perform safe pick-and-place operations exhibiting real time behaviour through efficient image processing.
Keywords :
collision avoidance; control engineering computing; image processing; image sensors; industrial robots; man-machine systems; motion control; production engineering computing; human-robot cooperation; image processing; industrial robot system; obstacle detection; pick-and-place operations; robot motion path; stationary cameras; Cameras; Human robot interaction; Image reconstruction; Layout; Object detection; Path planning; Robot sensing systems; Robot vision systems; Safety; Service robots;
Conference_Titel :
Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2005. ROMAN 2005. IEEE International Workshop on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9274-4
DOI :
10.1109/ROMAN.2005.1513837
