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An implementation of seamless human-robot interaction for pipeline welding telerobotics

  • Na Dong*
  • , Haichao Li
  • , Hongming Gao
  • , Lin Wu
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Although welding is an important technology for nuclear pipeline maintenance, it cannot be performed effectively up to date because of the robot can not be fully autonomous. This paper presents a human-robot cooperation telerobotics system for pipeline welding in a nuclear environment. The implementation of human-robot welding systems can be extremely challenging when the robot is not directly controlled by the human. Depending on the task, the interaction mode is composed of continuous manual, semi-autonomous or autonomous. To address the Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) issues in such a system, a concept of seamless HRI is introduced. The main idea seamless HRI is to design a telerobotics welding system that allows a shift from manual to autonomous operation, dynamically, via different human-robot roles and relationships. These roles are Master-Slave, Supervisor-Subordinate, Peer-Peer, Teacher-Learner and Full Autonomous mode by the robot. The theoretical foundations for seamless HRI are introduced. An implementation of the concept is presented and experimental results show the system get through the pipeline welding.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationRobotic Welding, Intelligence and Automation, RWIA'2010
Pages435-442
Number of pages8
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Event2010 International Conference on Robotic Welding, Intelligence and Automation, RWIA'2010 - Shanghai, China
Duration: 14 Oct 201016 Oct 2010

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Electrical Engineering
Volume88 LNEE
ISSN (Print)1876-1100
ISSN (Electronic)1876-1119

Conference

Conference2010 International Conference on Robotic Welding, Intelligence and Automation, RWIA'2010
Country/TerritoryChina
CityShanghai
Period14/10/1016/10/10

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