Improving safety in physical human-robot collaboration via deep metric learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.11933v2
• Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2023 10:40:27 GMT
• Title: Improving safety in physical human-robot collaboration via deep metric learning
• Authors: Maryam Rezayati, Grammatiki Zanni, Ying Zaoshi, Davide Scaramuzza, Hans Wernher van de Venn
• Abstract summary: Direct physical interaction with robots is becoming increasingly important in flexible production scenarios. In order to keep the risk potential low, relatively simple measures are prescribed for operation, such as stopping the robot if there is physical contact or if a safety distance is violated. This work uses the Deep Metric Learning (DML) approach to distinguish between non-contact robot movement, intentional contact aimed at physical human-robot interaction, and collision situations.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Direct physical interaction with robots is becoming increasingly important in flexible production scenarios, but robots without protective fences also pose a greater risk to the operator. In order to keep the risk potential low, relatively simple measures are prescribed for operation, such as stopping the robot if there is physical contact or if a safety distance is violated. Although human injuries can be largely avoided in this way, all such solutions have in common that real cooperation between humans and robots is hardly possible and therefore the advantages of working with such systems cannot develop its full potential. In human-robot collaboration scenarios, more sophisticated solutions are required that make it possible to adapt the robot's behavior to the operator and/or the current situation. Most importantly, during free robot movement, physical contact must be allowed for meaningful interaction and not recognized as a collision. However, here lies a key challenge for future systems: detecting human contact by using robot proprioception and machine learning algorithms. This work uses the Deep Metric Learning (DML) approach to distinguish between non-contact robot movement, intentional contact aimed at physical human-robot interaction, and collision situations. The achieved results are promising and show show that DML achieves 98.6\% accuracy, which is 4\% higher than the existing standards (i.e. a deep learning network trained without DML). It also indicates a promising generalization capability for easy portability to other robots (target robots) by detecting contact (distinguishing between contactless and intentional or accidental contact) without having to retrain the model with target robot data.

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