Monitoring and Digitising Human-Workpiece Interactions during a Manual Manufacturing Assembly Operation Using KinectTM

Vinayak A. Prabhu; Ashutosh Tiwari; Windo Hutabarat; Christopher Turner

doi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.572.609

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Monitoring and Digitising Human-Workpiece Interactions during a Manual Manufacturing Assembly Operation Using Kinect^TM

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Automation boosts competitiveness of manufacturing companies and is pervasive in modern industry. However, skilled manual labour is still used in a variety of complex tasks and is currently irreplaceable. A solution may lie in understanding the interactions between a human worker and the workpiece during a manufacturing task and digitising these interactions to potentially enable automation of the task. In this paper, a method to observe, record and digitise human-workpiece interactions using the Microsoft Kinect^TM is described. A manual threaded-fit assembly of a two-component pen housing is chosen. Essential information about the manual assembly is extracted from the recorded interaction data. The developed mechanism being markerless and unobtrusive is helpful in recording human-workpiece interactions in a factory without affecting normal operations.

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Key Engineering Materials (Volume 572)

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Vinayak A. Prabhu, Ashutosh Tiwari, Windo Hutabarat, Christopher Turner

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Automation, Human-Workpiece, Interaction, KINECT, Manufacturing, Motion, Tracking

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