"I see you": safe and effective human-robot interaction based on vision system

The interaction between humans and robots is becoming more and more common in several applications, from industrial to service scenarios. To obtain a productive interaction, robots must be able to adapt their trajectories to the human partners’ movements. Different kinds of sensors, such as vision systems or wearable IMUs, can be used to track the motion of the operators. Results achieved in the development of online motion planning algorithms based on vision systems, useful for human-robot interaction, are here presented. A multiple depth sensor layout based on Microsoft Kinect is utilized to track human’s position and gesture. The algorithms are implemented on a collaborative robot UR3 to show their effectiveness in different real scenarios.https://youtu.be/_33GK6sMmCQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5knnv4OSDO