Abstract
The new industrial settings are characterized by the presence of human and robots that work in close proximity, cooperating in performing the required job. Such a collaboration, however, requires to pay attention to many aspects. Firstly, it is crucial to enable a communication between this two actors that is natural and efficient. Secondly, the robot behavior must always be compliant with the safety regulations, ensuring always a safe collaboration. In this paper, we propose a framework that enables multi-channel communication between humans and robots by leveraging multimodal fusion of voice and gesture commands while always respecting safety regulations. The framework is validated through a comparative experiment, demonstrating that, thanks to multimodal communication, the robot can extract valuable information for performing the required task and additionally, with the safety layer, the robot can scale its speed to ensure the operator’s safety.
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Video of experiments available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8083948 [14].
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Ferrari, D., Pupa, A., Signoretti, A., Secchi, C. (2024). Safe Multimodal Communication in Human-Robot Collaboration. In: Piazza, C., Capsi-Morales, P., Figueredo, L., Keppler, M., Schütze, H. (eds) Human-Friendly Robotics 2023. HFR 2023. Springer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics, vol 29. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-55000-3_11
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