TY - CHAP A1 - Pohlt, Clemens A1 - Schlegl, Thomas A1 - Wachsmuth, Sven T1 - Human Work Activity Recognition for Working Cells in Industrial Production Contexts T2 - 2019 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC), 6-9 Oct. 2019, Bari, Italy N2 - Collaboration between robots and humans requires communicative skills on both sides. The robot has to understand the conscious and unconscious activities of human workers. Many state-of-the-art activity recognition algorithms with high performance rates on existing benchmark datasets are available for this task. This paper re-evaluates appropriate architectures in light of human work activity recognition for working cells in industrial production contexts. The specific constraints of such a domain is elaborated and used as prior knowledge. We utilize state-of-the-art algorithms as spatiotemporal feature encoders and search for appropriate classification and fusion strategies. Furthermore, we combine keypoint-based with appearance-based approaches to a multi-stream recognition system. Due to data protection rules and the high effort of data annotation within industrial domains only small datasets are available that reflect production aspects. Therefore, we use transfer learning approaches to reduce the dependency on data volume and variance in the target domain. The resulting recognition system achieves high performance for both singular person action and human-object interaction. KW - Activity recognition KW - Pose estimation KW - Robots KW - Task analysis KW - Three-dimensional displays KW - Two dimensional displays Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1109/SMC.2019.8913873 SP - 4225 EP - 4230 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Pohlt, Clemens A1 - Haubner, Franz A1 - Lang, Jonas A1 - Rochholz, Sandra A1 - Schlegl, Thomas A1 - Wachsmuth, Sven T1 - Effects on User Experience During Human-Robot Collaboration in Industrial Scenarios T2 - 2018 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), 7-10 Oct. 2018, Miyazaki, Japan N2 - In smart manufacturing environments robots collaborate with human operators as peers. They even share the same working space and time. An intuitive interaction with different input modalities is decisive to reduce workload and training periods for collaboration. We introduce our interaction system that is able to recognize gestures, actions and objects in a typical smart working scenario. As key aspect, this article considers an empirical investigation of input modalities (touch, gesture), individual differences (performance, recognition rate, previous knowledge) and boundary conditions (level of automation) on user experience. Therefore, answers from 31 participants within two experiments are collected. We show that the arrangement of the human-robot collaboration (input modalities, boundary conditions) has a significant effect on user experience in real-world environments. This effect and the individual differences between participants can be measured utilizing recognition rates and standardized usability questionnaires. KW - Collaboration KW - Gesture recognition KW - Robots KW - Task analysis KW - Three-dimensional displays KW - Training KW - Tutorials Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1109/SMC.2018.00150 SP - 837 EP - 842 PB - IEEE ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Pohlt, Clemens A1 - Hell, Sebastian A1 - Schlegl, Thomas A1 - Wachsmuth, Sven ED - Wrede, Britta ED - Nagai, Yukie ED - Komatsu, Takanori ED - Hanheide, Marc ED - Natale, Lorenzo T1 - Impact of Spontaneous Human Inputs during Gesture based Interaction on a Real-World Manufacturing Scenario T2 - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Human Agent Interaction (HAI '17), Bielefeld Germany, 17.10.2017 -20.10.2017 N2 - Seamless human-robot collaboration depends on high non-verbal behaviour recognition rates. To realize that in real-world manufacturing scenarios with an ecological valid setup, a lot of effort has to be invested. In this paper, we evaluate the impact of spontaneous inputs on the robustness of human-robot collaboration during gesture-based interaction. A high share of these spontaneous inputs lead to a reduced capability to predict behaviour and subsequently to a loss of robustness. We observe body and hand behaviour during interactive manufacturing of a collaborative task within two experiments. First, we analyse the occurrence frequency, reason and manner of human inputs in specific situations during a human-human experiment. We show the high impact of spontaneous inputs, especially in situations that differ from the typical working procedure. Second, we concentrate on implicit inputs during a real-world Wizard of Oz experiment using our human-robot working cell. We show that hand positions can be used to anticipate user needs in a semi-structured environment by applying knowledge about the semi-structured human behaviour which is distributed over working space and time in a typical manner. Y1 - 2017 SN - 9781450351133 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1145/3125739.3132590 SP - 347 EP - 351 PB - ACM CY - New York, NY ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Pohlt, Clemens A1 - Schlegl, Thomas A1 - Wachsmuth, Sven T1 - Weakly-Supervised Learning for Multimodal Human Activity Recognition in Human-Robot Collaboration Scenarios T2 - 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS): October 25-29, 2020, Las Vegas, NV, USA (virtual) N2 - The ability to synchronize expectations among human-robot teams and understand discrepancies between expectations and reality is essential for human-robot collaboration scenarios. To ensure this, human activities and intentions must be interpreted quickly and reliably by the robot using various modalities. In this paper we propose a multimodal recognition system designed to detect physical interactions as well as nonverbal gestures. Existing approaches feature high post-transfer recognition rates which, however, can only be achieved based on well-prepared and large datasets. Unfortunately, the acquisition and preparation of domain-specific samples especially in industrial context is time consuming and expensive. To reduce this effort we introduce a weakly-supervised classification approach. Therefore, we learn a latent representation of the human activities with a variational autoencoder network. Additional modalities and unlabeled samples are incorporated by a scalable product-of-expert sampling approach. The applicability in industrial context is evaluated by two domain-specific collaborative robot datasets. Our results demonstrate, that we can keep the number of labeled samples constant while increasing the network performance by providing additional unprocessed information. KW - Activity recognition KW - Collaboration KW - Intelligent robots KW - reliability KW - Service robots KW - Synchronization Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS45743.2020.9340788 SP - 8381 EP - 8386 PB - IEEE ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Niedersteiner, Sascha A1 - Lang, Jonas A1 - Pohlt, Clemens A1 - Schlegl, Thomas T1 - Klassifikation des Arbeitsfortschritts BT - Support-Vector-Machine-Ansatz für intelligente Arbeitsplätze JF - atp magazin N2 - Steigende Anforderungen an die Qualität von zum Teil manuell gefertigten Produkten führen dazu, dass Handarbeitsplätze mit Assistenzsystemen für die Unterstützung der am Arbeitsplatz arbeitenden Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter ausgestattet werden. Der Beitrag beschreibt einen neuen Ansatz, um mittels Verfahren des maschinellen Lernens die Objekterkennung sowie die Transitionen eines, den Arbeitsprozess repräsentierenden Zustandsautomaten eines solchen Systems einzulernen. Hierfür werden nach einer Vorverarbeitung Daten aus einer Tiefenkamera in drei Stufen durch Support Vector Machines (SVM) klassifiziert und das Ergebnis mit dem Zustandsautomaten verknüpft. Das Konzept wird an einem industriellen Montageprozess überschaubarer Komplexität evaluiert; es zeigt gute Ergebnisse hinsichtlich der Robustheit gegenüber Fehlern bei der Objektklassifikation. KW - assistierender Arbeitsplatz KW - Maschinelles Lernen KW - Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion KW - robuste Erkennung des Arbeitsfortschritts KW - Tiefenkamera Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.17560/atp.v59i11.1911 VL - 59 IS - 11 SP - 58 EP - 66 PB - Vulkan-Verlag ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Niedersteiner, Sascha A1 - Lang, Jonas A1 - Pohlt, Clemens A1 - Schlegl, Thomas T1 - Tracking work task completion - A support vector machine approach for assisting workbenches JF - atp edition N2 - Tightening quality requirements of industrial products involving manual assembly lead to the development of assisting workbenches with integrated functions to support workers performing these manual tasks. This contribution discusses a new approach to learning transitions of a finite state automaton representing the sequence of work tasks based on the video stream of a 3D depth camera. Preprocessed video data is fed into a three-stage classification scheme based on support vector machines. The results of the classification are then related to the state automation to trigger state transitions indicating the completion of a specific work task and the start of the next one. The proposed approach has been evaluated at an industrial assembly process of moderate complexity and shows very robust results with respect to disturbances caused by inaccurate object classification. N2 - Steigende Anforderungen an die Qualität von zum Teil manuell gefertigten Produkten führen dazu, dass Handarbeitsplätze mit Assistenzsystemen für die Unterstützung der am Arbeitsplatz arbeitenden Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter ausgestattet werden. Der Beitrag beschreibt einen neuen Ansatz, um mittels Verfahren des maschinellen Lernens die Objekterkennung sowie die Transitionen eines, den Arbeitsprozess repräsentierenden Zustandsautomaten eines solchen Systems einzulernen. Hierfür werden nach einer Vorverarbeitung Daten aus einer Tiefenkamera in drei Stufen durch Support Vector Machines (SVM) klassifiziert und das Ergebnis mit dem Zustandsautomaten verknüpft. Das Konzept wird an einem industriellen Montageprozess überschaubarer Komplexität evaluiert; es zeigt gute Ergebnisse hinsichtlich der Robustheit gegenüber Fehlern bei der Objektklassifikation. T2 - Klassifikation des Arbeitsfortschritts - Support-Vector-Machine-Ansatz für intelligente Arbeitsplätze KW - 3D depth camera KW - assisting workbench KW - human-machine interaction KW - Machine learning KW - robust tracking of task completion KW - SYSTEM Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.17560/atp.v59i11.1911 IS - 11 SP - 58 EP - 66 PB - DIV Deutscher Industrieverl. ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Niedersteiner, Sascha A1 - Pohlt, Clemens A1 - Schlegl, Thomas T1 - Smart Workbench: A Multimodal and Bidirectional Assistance System for Industrial Application T2 - IECON 2015 - 41st Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, 09.-12.11.2015, Yokohama, Japan N2 - Manual tasks in industrial production are often monotonous, leading to a decrease in concentration and motivation of the worker and thus to deficiencies in the products. With quality as well as performance requirements getting more and more stringent, workers need additional support by their work environment. We developed a novel approach providing worker assistance and inline quality assurance for manual workplaces. The prototypical system Smart Workbench (SWoB) uses a multimodal sensor interface consisting of a 3D depth sensor in combination with a 2D camera to control quality aspects of the product and track the work progress. The bidirectional flow of information is handled via an image processing driven gestural interface and the displaying of advice directly on the work surface. In this paper the developed system is introduced and the current state of evaluating its industrial usage with a manual quality control and packaging task reported. Y1 - 2015 SN - 978-1-4799-1762-4 SN - 978-1-4799-1761-7 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1109/iecon.2015.7392549 PB - IEEE CY - Piscataway, N.J. ER -