ArUcoGlide：位置追跡と触覚フィードバックで人とロボットの協働安全を高めるウェアラブルロボット
ArUcoGlide: a Novel Wearable Robot for Position Tracking and Haptic Feedback to Increase Safety During Human-Robot Interaction
マーカーを保持する2自由度ウェアラブルロボットと低コスト追跡システム、人工ポテンシャル場による衝突回避を組み合わせ、協働作業の効率を保ちながら安全性を向上させるフレームワークを提案・評価した。
著者: Ali Alabbas, Miguel Altamirano Cabrera, Oussama Alyounes, Dzmitry Tsetserukou
分類: cs.RO, cs.HC
原文アブストラクト
The current capabilities of robotic systems make human collaboration necessary to accomplish complex tasks effectively. In this work, we are introducing a framework to ensure safety in a human-robot collaborative environment. The system is composed of a wearable 2-DOF robot, a low-cost and easy-to-install tracking system, and a collision avoidance algorithm based on the Artificial Potential Field (APF). The wearable robot is designed to hold a fiducial marker and maintain its visibility to the tracking system, which, in turn, localizes the user's hand with good accuracy and low latency and provides haptic feedback to the user. The system is designed to enhance the performance of collaborative tasks while ensuring user safety. Three experiments were carried out to evaluate the performance of the proposed system. The first one evaluated the accuracy of the tracking system. The second experiment analyzed human-robot behavior during an imminent collision. The third experiment evaluated the system in a collaborative activity in a shared working environment. The results show that the implementation of the introduced system reduces the operation time by 16% and increases the average distance between the user's hand and the robot by 5 cm.
