Title
Bi-Manual Articulated Robot Teleoperation using an External RGB-D Range Sensor
Abstract
In this paper, we present an implementation of a bi-manual teleoperation system, controlled by a human through three-dimensional (3D) skeleton extraction. The input data is given from a cheap RGB-D range sensor, such as the ASUS Xtion PRO. To achieve this, we have implemented a 3D version of the impressive OpenPose package, which was recently developed. The first stage of our method contains the execution of the OpenPose Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), using a sequence of RGB images as input. The extracted human skeleton pose localisation in two-dimensions (2D) is followed by the mapping of the extracted joint location estimations into their 3D pose in the camera frame. The output of this process is then used as input to drive the end-pose of the robotic hands relative to the human hand movements, through a whole-body inverse kinematics process in the Cartesian space. Finally, we implement the method as a ROS wrapper package and we test it on the centaur-like CENTAURO robot. Our demonstrated task is of a box and lever manipulation in real-time, as a result of a human task demonstration.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/ICARCV.2018.8581174
2018 15th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV)
Keywords
Field
DocType
external RGB-D range sensor,three-dimensional skeleton extraction,ASUS Xtion PRO,RGB images,robotic hands,human hand movements,whole-body inverse kinematics process,ROS wrapper package,centaur-like CENTAURO robot,human skeleton,joint location estimations,OpenPose convolutional neural network,OpenPose package,RGB-D range sensor,bimanual articulated robot teleoperation
Teleoperation,Computer vision,Inverse kinematics,Computer science,Convolutional neural network,Lever,Control engineering,Artificial intelligence,RGB color model,Robot,Articulated robot,Cartesian coordinate system
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2474-2953
978-1-5386-9583-8
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.43
9
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Emily-Jane Rolley-Parnell120.43
Dimitrios Kanoulas2198.31
Arturo Laurenzi3249.04
Brian Delhaisse420.77
Leonel Rozo515813.95
Darwin G. Caldwell62900319.72
NG Tsagarakis71492159.09