Publication

Teaching a robot where doors and drawers are and how to handle them

Conference Article

Conference

IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)

Edition

32nd

Pages

2288-2294

Doc link

http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/RO-MAN57019.2023.10309560

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Abstract

We address the problem of teaching a service robot to detect doors and drawers in indoor environments. We propose a robust and accurate method in which a human demonstrates to the robot how to open doors and drawers that the robot is expected to operate in its future use. The proposed algorithm creates a model of a door or drawer from a sequence of RGB-D images and inserts it into an environment map. The model contains information about the size of the door panel or drawer front, as well as the position and orientation of the joint axis. This augmented environment map is then used by the robot to detect the target object in its environment and estimate its state.

Categories

robot vision, robots, service robots, social aspects of automation.

Scientific reference

R. Cupec, I. Vidovic, V. Simundic, P. Pejic, S. Foix and G. Alenyà. Teaching a robot where doors and drawers are and how to handle them, 32nd IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2023, Busan, Korea, pp. 2288-2294.