Human-robot Cooperation Based on Visual Communication

摘要

This paper proposes a human-robot cooperative system supported by visual communication. Human-robot cooperation is expected in various fields nowadays in order to raise efficiency, accuracy and safety of work, to name a few, production of goods, logistics, car driving, care of aged people, etc. In the human-robot cooperation, it is desirable that a human takes less part of work; whereas a robot takes a larger role with it. The idea of the present paper is that visual decision making is done by a human rather than a robot. The proposed system goes to a specified remote spot autonomously and performs objects acquisition there by communicating visually with a user. It aims at realizing ‘a shopping robot’ in near future and expected to be used by disadvantaged shoppers. The proposed system is presented and some experimental results are shown.