Touch: The direct type of human interaction with a redundant service robot

G. Grunwald, G. Schreiber, A. Albu-Schäffer, G. Hirzinger

Research output: Contribution to conferencePaperpeer-review

9 Scopus citations

Abstract

The mobile service robots will share their workspaces e.g. offices, hospitals or households with humans. Thus a direct contact between man and machine is inevitably. Robots equipped with appropriate sensors can sense the touch. In this paper we present how an untrained user can intuitively interact with the new DLR light-weight robot just by touching the arm. The robot with 7 dof's will react by an evasiveness motion of the touched links while remaining the orientation of the TCP. This feature can also be used for programming the robot. Programming by "touch" is very intuitive as you take the robot at hand and demonstrate the movements.

Original languageEnglish
Pages347-352
Number of pages6
StatePublished - 2001
Externally publishedYes
Event10th IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Communication - Bordeaux-Paris, France
Duration: 18 Sep 200121 Sep 2001

Conference

Conference10th IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Communication
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityBordeaux-Paris
Period18/09/0121/09/01

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'Touch: The direct type of human interaction with a redundant service robot'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this