The new industrial settings are characterized by the presence of human and robots that work in close proximity, cooperating in performing the required job. Such a collaboration, however, requires to pay attention to many aspects. Firstly, it is crucial to enable a communication between this two actors that is natural and efficient. Secondly, the robot behavior must always be compliant with the safety regulations, ensuring always a safe collaboration. In this paper, we propose a framework that enables multi-channel communication between humans and robots by leveraging multimodal fusion of voice and gesture commands while always respecting safety regulations. The framework is validated through a comparative experiment, demonstrating that, thanks to multimodal communication, the robot can extract valuable information for performing the required task and additionally, with the safety layer, the robot can scale its speed to ensure the operator’s safety.
Safe Multimodal Communication in Human-Robot Collaboration
Springer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics
International Workshop on Human-Friendly Robotics ; 2023 ; Munich, Germany September 20, 2023 - September 21, 2023
2024-03-10
13 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
AIAA-2004-6366 Toward Multimodal Human-Robot Cooperation and Collaboration
British Library Conference Proceedings | 2004
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