Title
Transfer Learning for Unseen Robot Detection and Joint Estimation on a Multi-Objective Convolutional Neural Network
Abstract
A significant problem of using deep learning techniques is the limited amount of data available for training. There are some datasets available for the popular problems like item recognition and classification or self-driving cars, however, it is very limited for the industrial robotics field. In previous work, we have trained a multi-objective Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) to identify the robot body in the image and estimate 3D positions of the joints by using just a 2D image, but it was limited to a range of robots produced by Universal Robots (UR). In this work, we extend our method to work with a new robot arm - Kuka LBR iiwa, which has a significantly different appearance and an additional joint. However, instead of collecting large datasets once again, we collect a number of smaller datasets containing a few hundred frames each and use transfer learning techniques on the CNN trained on UR robots to adapt it to a new robot having different shapes and visual features. We have proven that transfer learning is not only applicable in this field, but it requires smaller well-prepared training datasets, trains significantly faster and reaches similar accuracy compared to the original method, even improving it on some aspects.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/IISR.2018.8535937
2018 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Safety for Robotics (ISR)
Keywords
DocType
ISBN
training datasets,2D image,robot arm - Kuka LBR,Universal Robots,robot body,industrial robotics field,deep learning techniques,multiobjective Convolutional Neural Network,joint estimation,unseen robot detection,UR robots,CNN,transfer learning techniques
Conference
978-1-5386-5548-1
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.36
8
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Justinas Miseikis110.36
Inka Brijacak271.52
Saeed Yahyanejad310.36
Kyrre Glette434441.17
Ole Jakob Elle56815.39
Jim Torresen687696.23