Perspectives on augmented reality based human-robot interaction with industrial robots

Abstract

Absirad-First steps towards reliable Augmented Reality based human-robot interaction have been explored by theindusMal robot manufacturer KUKA within the G e m n cooperative research project MORPHA. Various aspects of Augmented Reality were analyzed and evaluated with respect to industrial requirements: interaction devices, tracking methods, accuracy, cost etc. As a result of this study, iraining oh and puolifiation for, robof operotion and pmgmniming was selected as the most promising area for AR-based human-robot interaction with state-of-the-art AR techniques and devices. Therefore, research work concentrated on visualizing workflows that help inexperienced users to cope with rather complex robot operation and programming tasks. KIJK.4 College students. ImplP mentation details and results of initial experiments and a user survey are presented. Several AR-based human-robot interaction prototypes were developed and presented to Klywords -Augmented Rea&; indusirbzl robof operation and programming; human-roboi inferoction; frnining and eduealion; user survey

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