Title :
Image processing methods for interactive robot control
Author :
Theis, Christoph ; Iossifidis, Ioannis ; Steinhage, Axel
Author_Institution :
Inst. fur Neuroinformatik, Ruhr-Univ., Bochum, Germany
Abstract :
In this paper we describe a straight forward technique for tracking a human hand based on images acquired by an active stereo camera system. We demonstrate the implementation of this method on an anthropomorphic assistance robot as part of a multi-modal man-machine interaction system: detecting the hand-position, the robot can interprete a human pointing gesture as the specification of a target object to grasp
Keywords :
image processing; robot dynamics; user interfaces; active stereo camera system; anthropomorphic assistance robot; human hand tracking; human pointing gesture; image processing methods; interactive robot control; multi-modal man-machine interaction system; Anthropomorphism; Cameras; Human robot interaction; Image processing; Man machine systems; Robot control; Robot kinematics; Robot vision systems; Robotic assembly; Service robots;
Conference_Titel :
Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2001. Proceedings. 10th IEEE International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Bordeaux, Paris
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7222-0
DOI :
10.1109/ROMAN.2001.981941
