Paper ID: 2204.00597

Fast and Automatic Object Registration for Human-Robot Collaboration in Industrial Manufacturing

Manuela Geiß, Martin Baresch, Georgios Chasparis, Edwin Schweiger, Nico Teringl, Michael Zwick

We present an end-to-end framework for fast retraining of object detection models in human-robot-collaboration. Our Faster R-CNN based setup covers the whole workflow of automatic image generation and labeling, model retraining on-site as well as inference on a FPGA edge device. The intervention of a human operator reduces to providing the new object together with its label and starting the training process. Moreover, we present a new loss, the intraspread-objectosphere loss, to tackle the problem of open world recognition. Though it fails to completely solve the problem, it significantly reduces the number of false positive detections of unknown objects.

Submitted: Apr 1, 2022