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Title: Forecasting the Range of Possible Human Hand Movement in Consumer Electronics Disassembly Using Machine Learning
Robotic technology can benefit disassembly operations by reducing human operators’ workload and assisting them with handling hazardous materials. Safety consideration and predicting human movement is a priority in human-robot close collaboration. The point-by-point forecasting of human hand motion which forecasts one point at each time does not provide enough information on human movement due to errors between the actual movement and predicted value. This study provides a range of possible hand movements to enhance safety. It applies three machine learning techniques including Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM), Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU), and Bayesian Neural Network (BNN) combined with Bagging and Monte Carlo Dropout (MCD), namely LSTM-Bagging, GRU-Bagging, and BNN-MCD to predict the possible movement range. The study uses an Inertial Measurement Units (IMU) dataset collected from the disassembly of desktop computers to show the application of the proposed method. The findings reveal that BNN-MCD outperforms other models in forecasting the range of possible hand movement.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
2026276
PAR ID:
10465138
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
Proceedings of the ASME 2023 18th International Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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