학술논문

Anticipatory Human-Robot Collaboration via Multi-Objective Trajectory Optimization
Document Type
Conference
Source
2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on. :11052-11057 Oct, 2020
Subject
Robotics and Control Systems
Measurement
Collaboration
Real-time systems
Safety
Task analysis
Trajectory optimization
Intelligent robots
Language
ISSN
2153-0866
Abstract
We address the problem of adapting robot trajectories to improve safety, comfort, and efficiency in humanrobot collaborative tasks. To this end, we propose CoMOTO, a trajectory optimization framework that utilizes stochastic motion prediction to anticipate the human's motion and adapt the robot's joint trajectory accordingly. We design a multiobjective cost function that simultaneously optimizes for i) separation distance, ii) visibility of the end-effector, iii) legibility, iv) efficiency, and v) smoothness. We evaluate CoMOTO against three existing methods for robot trajectory generation when in close proximity to humans. Our experimental results indicate that our approach consistently outperforms existing methods over a combined set of safety, comfort, and efficiency metrics.