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Auteurs principaux: Zechmair, Michael, Morel, Yannick
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Publié: 2024
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author Zechmair, Michael
Morel, Yannick
author_facet Zechmair, Michael
Morel, Yannick
contents Human-robot collaboration requires the establishment of methods to guarantee the safety of participating operators. A necessary part of this process is ensuring reliable human pose estimation. Established vision-based modalities encounter problems when under conditions of occlusion. This article describes the combination of two perception modalities for pose estimation in environments containing such transient occlusion. We first introduce a vision-based pose estimation method, based on a deep Predictive Coding (PC) model featuring robustness to partial occlusion. Next, capacitive sensing hardware capable of detecting various objects is introduced. The sensor is compact enough to be mounted on the exterior of any given robotic system. The technology is particularly well-suited to detection of capacitive material, such as living tissue. Pose estimation from the two individual sensing modalities is combined using a modified Luenberger observer model. We demonstrate that the results offer better performance than either sensor alone. The efficacy of the system is demonstrated on an environment containing a robot arm and a human, showing the ability to estimate the pose of a human forearm under varying levels of occlusion.
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spellingShingle Multimodal Visual-haptic pose estimation in the presence of transient occlusion
Zechmair, Michael
Morel, Yannick
Robotics
Human-robot collaboration requires the establishment of methods to guarantee the safety of participating operators. A necessary part of this process is ensuring reliable human pose estimation. Established vision-based modalities encounter problems when under conditions of occlusion. This article describes the combination of two perception modalities for pose estimation in environments containing such transient occlusion. We first introduce a vision-based pose estimation method, based on a deep Predictive Coding (PC) model featuring robustness to partial occlusion. Next, capacitive sensing hardware capable of detecting various objects is introduced. The sensor is compact enough to be mounted on the exterior of any given robotic system. The technology is particularly well-suited to detection of capacitive material, such as living tissue. Pose estimation from the two individual sensing modalities is combined using a modified Luenberger observer model. We demonstrate that the results offer better performance than either sensor alone. The efficacy of the system is demonstrated on an environment containing a robot arm and a human, showing the ability to estimate the pose of a human forearm under varying levels of occlusion.
title Multimodal Visual-haptic pose estimation in the presence of transient occlusion
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.19323