NDLI: A framework for end-user instruction of a robot assistant for manufacturing

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Author	Guerin, K.R. Lea, C. Paxton, C. Hager, G.D.
Copyright Year	2015
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Comput. Sci., Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD, USA (Guerin, K.R.; Lea, C.; Paxton, C.; Hager, G.D.)
Abstract	Small Manufacturing Entities (SMEs) have not incorporated robotic automation as readily as large companies due to rapidly changing product lines, complex and dexterous tasks, and the high cost of start-up. While recent low-cost robots such as the Universal Robots UR5 and Rethink Robotics Baxter are more economical and feature improved programming interfaces, based on our discussions with manufacturers further incorporation of robots into the manufacturing work flow is limited by the ability of these systems to generalize across tasks and handle environmental variation. Our goal is to create a system designed for small manufacturers that contains a set of capabilities useful for a wide range of tasks, is both powerful and easy to use, allows for perceptually grounded actions, and is able to accumulate, abstract, and reuse plans that have been taught. We present an extension to Behavior Trees that allows for representing the system capabilities of a robot as a set of generalizable operations that are exposed to an end-user for creating task plans. We implement this framework in CoSTAR, the Collaborative System for Task Automation and Recognition, and demonstrate its effectiveness with two case studies. We first perform a complex tool-based object manipulation task in a laboratory setting. We then show the deployment of our system in an SME where we automate a machine tending task that was not possible with current off the shelf robots.
Starting Page	6167
Ending Page	6174
File Size	5098410
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
e-ISBN	9781479969234
DOI	10.1109/ICRA.2015.7140065
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2015-05-26
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Service robots Robot sensing systems Collaboration Manufacturing Automation Graphical user interfaces
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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