Gesture Interface and Transfer Method for AMR by Using Recognition of Pointing Direction and Object Recognition

This paper describes a gesture interface for a factory transfer robot. Our proposed interface used gesture recognition to recognize the pointing direction, instead of estimating the point as in conventional pointing gesture estimation. When the autonomous mobile robot (AMR) recognized the pointing d...

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Published inJournal of robotics and mechatronics Vol. 35; no. 2; pp. 288 - 297
Main Authors Ikeda, Takahiro, Noda, Naoki, Ueki, Satoshi, Yamada, Hironao
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Tokyo Fuji Technology Press Co. Ltd 20.04.2023
Subjects
Aerospace industry
Angular position
Automation
Cameras
Estimation
Factories
Gesture recognition
Interfaces
Magnetic tape
Manufacturing
Object recognition
Robots
Voice recognition
Workers
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Summary:This paper describes a gesture interface for a factory transfer robot. Our proposed interface used gesture recognition to recognize the pointing direction, instead of estimating the point as in conventional pointing gesture estimation. When the autonomous mobile robot (AMR) recognized the pointing direction, it performed position control based on the object recognition. The AMR traveled along our unique path to ensure that its camera detected the object to be referenced for position control. The experimental results confirmed that the position and angular errors of the AMR controlled with our interface were 0.058 m and 4.7° averaged over five subjects and two conditions, which were sufficiently accurate for transportation. A questionnaire showed that our interface was user-friendly compared with manual operation with a commercially available controller.
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ISSN:0915-3942
1883-8049
DOI:10.20965/jrm.2023.p0288