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JRM Vol.29 No.2 pp. 419-433
doi: 10.20965/jrm.2017.p0419
(2017)

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Teaching Tasks to Multiple Small Robots by Classifying and Splitting a Human Example

Jorge David Figueroa Heredia*, Jose Ildefonso U. Rubrico**, Shouhei Shirafuji**, and Jun Ota**

*Department of Precision Engineering, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo
7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan

**Research into Artifacts, Center for Engineering (RACE), The University of Tokyo
5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa-shi, Chiba 277-8568, Japan

Received:
June 22, 2016
Accepted:
December 25, 2016
Published:
April 20, 2017
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Keywords:
teaching multiple robots, human-robot interaction, cooperative manipulation
Abstract
In this study, we present a novel framework to address the problem of teaching manipulation tasks performed by a single human to a set of multiple small robots in a short period. First, we focused on classifying the manipulation style used during a human-performed task. An allocator process is proposed to determine the type and number of robots to be taught based on the capabilities of available robots. Then, according to the detected task requirements, robot behaviors are generated to create robot programs by splitting human demonstration data. Small robots were used to evaluate our approach in four defined tasks that were taught by a single human. Experiments demonstrated the efficiency of the method to classify and judge whether the division of a task is necessary or not. Moreover, robot programs were generated for manipulating selected objects either individually or in a cooperative manner.
Two robots performing the task of opening the folding chair lying on the floor

Two robots performing the task of opening the folding chair lying on the floor

Cite this article as:
J. Heredia, J. Rubrico, S. Shirafuji, and J. Ota, “Teaching Tasks to Multiple Small Robots by Classifying and Splitting a Human Example,” J. Robot. Mechatron., Vol.29 No.2, pp. 419-433, 2017.
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