Dynamic Scene Graph for Mutual-Cognition Generation in Proactive Human-Robot CollaborationShow others and affiliations
2022 (English)In: Procedia CIRP, Elsevier B.V. , 2022, p. 943-948Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Human-robot collaboration (HRC) plays a crucial role in agile, flexible, and human-centric manufacturing towards the mass personalization transition. Nevertheless, in today's HRC tasks, either humans or robots need to follow the partners' commands and instructions along collaborative activities progressing, instead of proactive, mutual engagement. The non-semantic perception of HRC scenarios impedes mutually needed, proactive planning and high-cognitive capabilities in existing HRC systems. To overcome the bottleneck, this research explores a dynamic scene graph-based method for mutual-cognition generation in Proactive HRC applications. Firstly, a spatial-attention object detector is utilized to dynamically perceive objects in industrial settings. Secondly, a linking prediction module is leveraged to construct HRC scene graphs. An attentional graph convolutional network (GCN) is utilized to capture relations between industrial parts, human operators, and robot operations and reason structural connections of human-robot collaborative processing as graph embedding, which links to mutual planners for human operation supports and robot proactive instructions. Lastly, the Proactive HRC implementation is demonstrated on disassembly tasks of aging electronic vehicle batteries (EVBs) and evaluate its mutual-cognition capabilities.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Elsevier B.V. , 2022. p. 943-948
Keywords [en]
Cognitive computing, human-centric manufacturing, human-robot collaboration, scene graph, Cognitive systems, Graphic methods, Object detection, Robots, Semantics, Collaboration task, Collaborative activities, Dynamic scenes, Human robots, Human-centric, Personalizations, Scene-graphs, Manufacture
National Category
Production Engineering, Human Work Science and Ergonomics
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-325073DOI: 10.1016/j.procir.2022.05.089Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85132249012OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-325073DiVA, id: diva2:1746331
Conference
55th CIRP Conference on Manufacturing Systems, CIRP CMS 2022, 29 June 2022 through 1 July 2022
Note
QC 20230328
2023-03-282023-03-282023-03-28Bibliographically approved