The Manufacturing Assistant: safe, interactive teaching of operation sequences

Author

Stopp, A. ; Baldauf, T. ; Hantsche, R. ; Horstmann, S. ; Kristensen, S. ; Lohnert, F. ; Priem, C. ; Rüscher, B.

Author_Institution

Cognition & Robotics Group, DaimlerChrysler Res. & Technol., Berlin, Germany

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

386

Lastpage

391

Abstract

In this paper we describe our Manufacturing Assistant, a mobile manipulator for future flexible manufacturing, and its capabilities for interactively learning new operation sequences. As an example we present a method for interactively teaching an order-picking task. The task is taught using a laser pointer and a hand-held computer. Furthermore, the system interacts with the user using speech output. The system was successfully demonstrated on the Hannover Industrial Fair 2002.

Keywords

cooperative systems; flexible manufacturing systems; industrial manipulators; interactive systems; learning (artificial intelligence); mobile robots; object recognition; speech-based user interfaces; Manufacturing Assistant; flexible manufacturing; hand-held computer; human industrial robot cooperation; industrial robot; interactive learning; laser pointer; mobile manipulator; object recognition control module; operation sequences; order-picking task; safe interactive teaching; speech output; user system interaction; Cognitive robotics; Education; Humans; Intelligent robots; Manufacturing industries; Manufacturing processes; Orbital robotics; Robot sensing systems; Safety; Service robots;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2002. Proceedings. 11th IEEE International Workshop on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7545-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ROMAN.2002.1045653

Filename

1045653