Prototype of a Workers' Motion Trace System Using Terrestrial Magnetism and Acceleration Sensors

  • Authors:
  • Nobuyoshi Sato;Shouichi Odashima;Jun Suzuki;Taiji Ishikawa;Yoshitoshi Murata

  • Affiliations:
  • Faculty of Software and Information Science, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan;Iwate Plant,Kanto Auto Works, Ltd., Japan;Iwate Plant,Kanto Auto Works, Ltd., Japan;Iwate Plant,Kanto Auto Works, Ltd., Japan;Faculty of Software and Information Science, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan

  • Venue:
  • NBiS '08 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Network-Based Information Systems
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

In quality control of industrial products, it is very important that not only qualities of materials and parts, design, but also a manufacturing work accords to instruction manuals for manufacturing process. Generally, most assembly process such as assembly line and cell production system have processes in everywhere to confirm quality and work in former processes. However, there are some cases that are difficult to be confirmed in later processes. For example, to fix a part by some screws, it is desirable to drive in diagonal order little by little. However, it is not easy to detect in appearance in case of this desirable procedure is violated. Therefore, we are developing a system to improve quality of industrial products. This system deals manufacturing processes as context, and grasp manufacturing process, recognizes context by tracing motions of worker's arm/hand by using terrestrial magnetism sensors and accelerometers. As a prototype of this system, we developed a system that judges attaching process of a particular part is correctly done or not in an accrual vehicle assemble factory. In this paper, we describe outline of the prototype of our workers' motion trace system and algorithms for judgment, and its evaluation.