{"title":"Factory workers-oriented programless visual inspection system","authors":"T. Anezaki","doi":"10.1109/ROMAN.1999.900369","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.1999.900369","url":null,"abstract":"When inspection equipment based on visual recognition is integrated in production sites the recognition logic is custom designed to satisfy the specific inspection normally requiring constant attention and recognition program modifications by specialty engineers. In order to improve the situation the paper proposes \"programless (programming free) visual recognition technology: a core technology used in inspection equipment that can autonomously improve recognition algorithms by feeding human know-how back into the system. As a step to realizing the object and matching kernel adjusting agent and inspection logic database and macro commands are described.","PeriodicalId":200240,"journal":{"name":"8th IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interaction. RO-MAN '99 (Cat. No.99TH8483)","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133230075","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
H. Yamaguchi, D. Nishikawa, W. Yu, M. Maruishi, H. Yokoi, Y. Mano, Y. Kakazu
{"title":"EMG control switching system for FES","authors":"H. Yamaguchi, D. Nishikawa, W. Yu, M. Maruishi, H. Yokoi, Y. Mano, Y. Kakazu","doi":"10.1109/ROMAN.1999.900302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.1999.900302","url":null,"abstract":"Functional electrical stimulation (FES) is an effective method for assisting the movement of paraplegic patients. FES makes it possible to realize activities such as standing-up, walking, and grasping. However in spite of this advantage, its clinical application is limited. One reason is that it needs a switch for which the paraplegic patients have to make an action other than the one that they desire to make. In some cases, it is possible to use another type of switch. Lower limb actions, for example standing-up and walking, need the synchronization of both limbs. Hence, in the case of lower limb hemiplegics it is possible to recognize the action that the patients intend to perform from the EMG (electromyogram) detected on the surface of the normal limb. EMG is physiological signal with individual disparity, which inevitably results in classification error. To overcome this problem, we use online classifier method. This paper presents an automatic switch system using EMG for hemiplegics and shows its potential.","PeriodicalId":200240,"journal":{"name":"8th IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interaction. RO-MAN '99 (Cat. No.99TH8483)","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126177537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Nishikawa, M. Nishimura, A. Hirano, K. Koara, F. Miyazaki
{"title":"Systematic selection of local correlation parameters for optical flow-based gesture recognition","authors":"A. Nishikawa, M. Nishimura, A. Hirano, K. Koara, F. Miyazaki","doi":"10.1109/ROMAN.1999.900337","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.1999.900337","url":null,"abstract":"We develop a real-time, optical flow-based gesture recognition system for human-robot interactions. In order to robustly estimate the right optical flow related to human gestures by the correlation-based technique, the following parameters must be selected appropriately in advance: the number of grid points, grid point intervals, search window size, pixel thinning rate, image sampling rate, and the size of correlation blocks. In our previous work (1999) these parameters were determined by the operator in a heuristic/empirical way. This paper presents a method to systematically select the local correlation parameters that ensure robust gesture recognition, which was not discussed in the previous study. We verified through various experiments that the combination of an optical flow-based gesture recognition technique with the proposed method can offer high recognition rates (overall 85% or more) for unspecific gesturers over a wide range of the gesturer-camera distance.","PeriodicalId":200240,"journal":{"name":"8th IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interaction. RO-MAN '99 (Cat. No.99TH8483)","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128547925","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Virtual dynamic prototyping for operator interface design","authors":"M.R. Niesen, G. Luecke","doi":"10.1109/ROMAN.1999.900366","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.1999.900366","url":null,"abstract":"Currently in vehicle design situations, the design of a human-vehicle interface may require multiple costly iterations. Once a prototype is built, the design can be tested and adjustments can be made. However, modifications made this late in the design process can be costly, especially if changing one component forces the revision of others. The goal of this ongoing project, which is funded by John Deere Corporation, is to develop a flexible prototyping system that allows the engineer to examine and modify an operator interface early in the design process. In this project, robotic elements such as an industrial robot and force feedback joysticks and levers are used in conjunction with graphics and existing control hardware like levers, switches, pedals, and joysticks to create an environment which can be readily reconfigured and tested without lengthy design changes.","PeriodicalId":200240,"journal":{"name":"8th IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interaction. RO-MAN '99 (Cat. No.99TH8483)","volume":"230 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123068518","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A method of kansei acquisition to 3D shape design and its application","authors":"R. Yamada, K. Nagai, H. Onishi, K. Kishimoto","doi":"10.1109/ROMAN.1999.900368","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.1999.900368","url":null,"abstract":"For personal design of HUTOP (a human-ergonomics-oriented design method), a support system like a \"design adviser\" which customizes the design with customer's kansei is indispensable. To realize this system, the technology that acquires customer's taste and changes customer's request into the physical parameter for the product design is needed. Although some methods for such system have been proposed, the methods that consider customer's individuality and also handle 3D shape are few. Because of this point, we propose a method of kansei acquisition to 3D shape. The method is based on 3D shape deformation and machine learning techniques, and can model the relationship between 3D shape and kansei about them. Sofa was chosen as an example of design and an experiment for testing the method was made, and then some problems were made clear.","PeriodicalId":200240,"journal":{"name":"8th IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interaction. RO-MAN '99 (Cat. No.99TH8483)","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125737559","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. Evangelista, M. Bergamasco, C. Avizzano, G. Di Pietro, A. Brogni, F. Tecchia, S. Catte
{"title":"Picture transposition in an immersive virtual representation for work of art fruition in a traditional museum","authors":"C. Evangelista, M. Bergamasco, C. Avizzano, G. Di Pietro, A. Brogni, F. Tecchia, S. Catte","doi":"10.1109/ROMAN.1999.900325","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.1999.900325","url":null,"abstract":"We present a virtual reality platform for the navigation of artistic paintings. We have investigated the employment of computer graphic technologies as an instrument for the \"representation\" of pictorial works. Particular attention has been paid to the modelling aspects, to the performance constraints and to the architectonic design. We present some of the issues we encountered during the realization and we discuss some of the design principles we adopted together with the constraints imposed by the system.","PeriodicalId":200240,"journal":{"name":"8th IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interaction. RO-MAN '99 (Cat. No.99TH8483)","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122998802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Acquisition and exploitation of a 3D environment model for computer aided teleoperation","authors":"P. Even, P. Graver, E. Maillard, R. Fournier","doi":"10.1109/ROMAN.1999.900350","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.1999.900350","url":null,"abstract":"Virtual reality techniques are a promising way to enhance the supervision of a computer aided teleoperation system. We already showed that interactive 3-D modeling is a flexible and sometimes the only possible way to provide the required environment model. In this article we indicate how a combined approach for model acquisition and exploitation can lead to an optimized implementation of both steps, and demonstrate it in the scope of a realistic maintenance mission: the inspection of a tap using a Maestro hydraulic manipulator.","PeriodicalId":200240,"journal":{"name":"8th IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interaction. RO-MAN '99 (Cat. No.99TH8483)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116766324","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Knowledge or reactivity: where is the right trade-off for an artificial mind?","authors":"G. Pettinaro","doi":"10.1109/ROMAN.1999.900305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.1999.900305","url":null,"abstract":"As opposed to the many robotic systems extensively built exclusively around the knowledge paradigm, examples taken from nature show a considerable level of adaptability to their environment without requiring a complete knowledge of their world. Extrapolating from such examples, the behavioural paradigm maintains that, since biological instincts are not processed at an intentional level, there is no need for a global knowledge. Even though the purely behavioural paradigm provides a possible answer to the issue of real-time reactivity, it is clearly not enough to allow an agent to scale up to an intentional level. Thus, although reactivity should be an integral part of an \"intelligent robot system\", knowledge should also play an important role in it. Defining the right trade-off between the two of them is the topic of this paper.","PeriodicalId":200240,"journal":{"name":"8th IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interaction. RO-MAN '99 (Cat. No.99TH8483)","volume":"300 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115667533","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"General aspect of human sensory factors in total production life cycle-for inspiring the respective HUTOP research subjects","authors":"H. Koshimizu","doi":"10.1109/ROMAN.1999.900367","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.1999.900367","url":null,"abstract":"The goal of HUTOP project (human sensory factors for TPLC) is to rearrange the technical subjects inherent in the total production life cycle (TPLC) and to model a new human-centered TPLC by introducing new information technologies which could support and enhance the KANSEI human sensory factors. HUTOP concept will be described again in this paper through the analysis of the basic research sub-themes as follows by using not official but orthodox technical terminological.","PeriodicalId":200240,"journal":{"name":"8th IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interaction. RO-MAN '99 (Cat. No.99TH8483)","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123133183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dynamic control of internal force for visco-elastic contact grasps","authors":"D. Prattichizzo, Paolo Mercorelli, F. Barbagli","doi":"10.1109/ROMAN.1999.900360","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.1999.900360","url":null,"abstract":"This paper deals with robotic grasps exhibiting viscoelastic contact interactions with the manipulated object. Such interactions are frequent in advanced robotic applications since in many cases, i.e. when a great precision is needed, elasticity cannot be neglected. This is particularly true in medical applications, as in telesurgery or in laparoscopy, where precision is obviously basic. The control of internal forces for viscoelastic grasps is explored in this work. This is an important issue in teleoperated robotics (telesurgery and so forth). The presence of nonnegligible compliance at the contacts, implies that the object dynamics cannot be neglected when attempting to control internal forces without affecting the object position. A geometric approach to derive a control law dynamically decoupling the internal force control action from the object dynamics is proposed.","PeriodicalId":200240,"journal":{"name":"8th IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interaction. RO-MAN '99 (Cat. No.99TH8483)","volume":"161 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123455714","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}