GeckoSystems Intl. Corp. (GOSY)

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Baxter - an industrial robot has to work in a safety zone so it doesn't hurt humans. They haven't figured out how to let it work closely yet.

This paper from May 2015 propose a way that the robot should be able to figure out what a human co-worker is going to do in order to be safe. A "white semi" moment is inevitable with this machine vision approach, IMO.

This paper proposes a human detection-based cognitive system for robots to work in human-existing environment and keep the safety of humans. An integrated system is implemented with perception, recognition, reasoning, decision-making, and action. Without using any traditional safety cages, a vision-based detection system is implemented for robots to monitor the environment and to detect humans. Subsequently, reasoning and decision making enables robots to evaluate the current safety-related situation for humans and provide corresponding safety signals. The decision making is based on maximizing the productivity of the robot in the manipulation process and keep the safety of humans in the environment. The system is implemented with a Baxter humanoid robot and a PowerBot mobile robot. Practical experiments and simulation experiments are carried out to validate our design.
Published in:
2015 IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Practical Robot Applications (TePRA)
Date of Conference:
11-12 May 2015

Page(s):
1 - 6
ISSN :
2325-0526
INSPEC Accession Number:
15401979

Conference Location :
Woburn, MA
DOI:
10.1109/TePRA.2015.7219658
Publisher:
IEEE

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=7219658&url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fxpls%2Fabs_all.jsp%3Farnumber%3D7219658