Title
A Markerless Human-Manipulators Interface Using Multi-Sensors
Abstract
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to present a markerless human-manipulators interface which maps the position and orientation of human end-effector (EE, the center of the palm) to those of robot EE so that the robot could copy the movement of the operator hand.Design/methodology/approach - The tracking system of this human-manipulators interface comprises five Leap Motions (LMs) which not only makes up the narrow workspace drawback of one LM but also provides redundancies to improve the data precision. However, because of the native noises and tracking errors of the LMs, the measurement errors increase over time. To address this problem, two filter tools are integrated to obtain the relatively accurate estimation of the human EE, that is, Particle Filter for position estimation and Kalman Filter for orientation estimation. Because the operator has inherent perceptive limitations, the motions of the manipulator may be out of sync with the hand motions, so that it is hard to complete with the high performance manipulation. Therefore, in this paper, an over-damping method is adopted to improve reliability and accuracy.Findings - A series of human-manipulators interaction experiments were carried out to verify the proposed system. Compared with the markerless and contactless methods(Kofman et al., 2007; Du and Zhang, 2015), the method described in this study is more accurate and efficient.Originality/value - The proposed method would not hinder most natural human limb motion and allows the operator to concentrate on his/her own task, making it perform high-precision manipulations efficiently.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1108/IR-03-2015-0057
INDUSTRIAL ROBOT-THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROBOTICS RESEARCH AND APPLICATION
Keywords
Field
DocType
Teleoperation, Man-machine interface (MMI), Kalman filter, Human-manipulators interface, Marker-less, Particle filter, Leap motion, Over damping
Workspace,Particle filter,Tracking system,Control engineering,Operator (computer programming),Artificial intelligence,sync,Teleoperation,Computer vision,Simulation,Kalman filter,Engineering,Robot
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
42
6
0143-991X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.41
17
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ping Zhang1587.64
Xin Liu228774.92
Guanglong Du311514.06
Liang Bin423954.58
Wang Xueqian53519.00