Fumiaki Osawa

Abstract:
This study focuses on robot-supported cooking in which a robot slices food with a knife. Food such as fish, meat, fish paste products, and bread dough have rheological properties - quantitative and qualitative relationships between deformation and stress and their derivatives cite{1}. Cutting techniques appropriate to individual materials preserve fiber and cell tissues on the cutting surface. We introduce basic and supplementary control variables for robot food slicing, demonstrating the qualitative relationship between supplementary control variables and cutting force and that operations are improved by adjusting control variables based on inner force information at cutting.

Keywords: robot-supported cooking, food slicing, cutting techniques, qualitative reasoning