Learning to Recognize and Grasp Objects

  • Authors:
  • Josef Pauli

  • Affiliations:
  • Christian–Albrechts–Universität, Institut für Informatik, Preusserstrasse 1-9, D–24105 Kiel, Germany. E-mail: jpa@informatik.uni-kiel.de

  • Venue:
  • Machine Learning - Special issue on learning in autonomous robots
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

We apply techniques of computer vision and neural network learningto get a versatile robot manipulator. All work conducted follows theprinciple of autonomous learning from visual demonstration. The user mustdemonstra te the relevant objects, situations, and/or actions, and therobot vision system must learn from those. For approaching and graspingtechnical objects three principal tasks have to be done—calibratingthe camera-robot coordination, detecting the desired object in the images,and choosing a stable grasping pose. These procedures are based on(nonlinear) functions, which are not known a priori and therefore have to belearned. We uniformly approximate the necessary functions by networks ofgaussian basis functions (GBF networks). By modifying the number of basisfunctions and/or the size of the gaussian support the quality of thefunction approximation changes. The appropriate configuration is learned inthe training phase and applied during the operation phase. All experimentsare carried out in real world applications using an industrial articulationrobot manipulator and the computer vision system KHOROS.