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Active Collision Avoidance for Human-Robot Interaction With UKF, Expert System, and Artificial Potential Field Method

With the development of Industry 4.0, the cooperation between robots and people is increasing. Therefore, man—machine security is the first problem that must be solved. In this paper, we proposed a novel methodology of active collision avoidance to safeguard the human who enters the robot's wor...

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Autores principales: Du, Guanglong, Long, Shuaiying, Li, Fang, Huang, Xin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7805694/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33501004
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2018.00125
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Li, Fang
Huang, Xin
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Huang, Xin
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description With the development of Industry 4.0, the cooperation between robots and people is increasing. Therefore, man—machine security is the first problem that must be solved. In this paper, we proposed a novel methodology of active collision avoidance to safeguard the human who enters the robot's workspace. In the conventional approaches of obstacle avoidance, it is not easy for robots and humans to work safely in the common unstructured environment due to the lack of the intelligence. In this system, one Kinect is employed to monitor the workspace of the robot and detect anyone who enters the workspace of the robot. Once someone enters the working space, the human will be detected, and the skeleton of the human can be calculated in real time by the Kinect. The measurement errors increase over time, owing to the tracking error and the noise of the device. Therefore we use an Unscented Kalman Filter (UKF) to estimate the positions of the skeleton points. We employ an expert system to estimate the behavior of the human. Then let the robot avoid the human by taking different measures, such as stopping, bypassing the human or getting away. Finally, when the robot needs to execute bypassing the human in real time, to achieve this, we adopt a method called artificial potential field method to generate a new path for the robot. By using this active collision avoidance, the system can achieve the purpose that the robot is unable to touch on the human. This proposed system highlights the advantage that during the process, it can first detect the human, then analyze the motion of the human and finally safeguard the human. We experimentally tested the active collision avoidance system in real-world applications. The results of the test indicate that it can effectively ensure human security.
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spelling pubmed-78056942021-01-25 Active Collision Avoidance for Human-Robot Interaction With UKF, Expert System, and Artificial Potential Field Method Du, Guanglong Long, Shuaiying Li, Fang Huang, Xin Front Robot AI Robotics and AI With the development of Industry 4.0, the cooperation between robots and people is increasing. Therefore, man—machine security is the first problem that must be solved. In this paper, we proposed a novel methodology of active collision avoidance to safeguard the human who enters the robot's workspace. In the conventional approaches of obstacle avoidance, it is not easy for robots and humans to work safely in the common unstructured environment due to the lack of the intelligence. In this system, one Kinect is employed to monitor the workspace of the robot and detect anyone who enters the workspace of the robot. Once someone enters the working space, the human will be detected, and the skeleton of the human can be calculated in real time by the Kinect. The measurement errors increase over time, owing to the tracking error and the noise of the device. Therefore we use an Unscented Kalman Filter (UKF) to estimate the positions of the skeleton points. We employ an expert system to estimate the behavior of the human. Then let the robot avoid the human by taking different measures, such as stopping, bypassing the human or getting away. Finally, when the robot needs to execute bypassing the human in real time, to achieve this, we adopt a method called artificial potential field method to generate a new path for the robot. By using this active collision avoidance, the system can achieve the purpose that the robot is unable to touch on the human. This proposed system highlights the advantage that during the process, it can first detect the human, then analyze the motion of the human and finally safeguard the human. We experimentally tested the active collision avoidance system in real-world applications. The results of the test indicate that it can effectively ensure human security. Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-11-06 /pmc/articles/PMC7805694/ /pubmed/33501004 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2018.00125 Text en Copyright © 2018 Du, Long, Li and Huang. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
spellingShingle Robotics and AI
Du, Guanglong
Long, Shuaiying
Li, Fang
Huang, Xin
Active Collision Avoidance for Human-Robot Interaction With UKF, Expert System, and Artificial Potential Field Method
title Active Collision Avoidance for Human-Robot Interaction With UKF, Expert System, and Artificial Potential Field Method
title_full Active Collision Avoidance for Human-Robot Interaction With UKF, Expert System, and Artificial Potential Field Method
title_fullStr Active Collision Avoidance for Human-Robot Interaction With UKF, Expert System, and Artificial Potential Field Method
title_full_unstemmed Active Collision Avoidance for Human-Robot Interaction With UKF, Expert System, and Artificial Potential Field Method
title_short Active Collision Avoidance for Human-Robot Interaction With UKF, Expert System, and Artificial Potential Field Method
title_sort active collision avoidance for human-robot interaction with ukf, expert system, and artificial potential field method
topic Robotics and AI
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7805694/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33501004
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2018.00125
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