Development and commercialization of a visual learning system for robot programming by demonstration

拟议的项目旨在通过演示将机器人编程的可视学习系统商业化。学习系统使用视觉系统来捕捉由人类专家演示的任务。然后，记录的演示动作被处理并直接传输到机器人程序中，机器人程序用于由机器人执行演示任务。视觉学习程序的方法是由申请者和他在瑞尔森大学机器人、机电一体化和自动化实验室的研究团队开发的。*拟议的系统将被授权给机器人制造商或通过初创公司，即视觉学习机器人公司进行商业化。项目目标包括开发视觉机器人学习原型系统，通过提交专利申请保护知识产权，技术推广和转让给接受者。该项目的成果是一个视觉学习软件包，可供使用机器人系统的工业公司使用。该技术降低了机器人应用程序的开发成本，更重要的是，它使不一定具有编程专业知识的最终用户能够快速而直观地对机器人进行编程。*技术接受者是在日常生产中使用机器人技术的制造公司，以及机器人制造商和软件开发公司。视觉学习技术满足了制造业对自动化日益增长的需求，并提升了加拿大公司的核心竞争力水平，提高了它们在全球市场上的竞争力。******

The proposed project aims at commercializing a visual learning system for robot programming by demonstration. The leaning system employs a vision system for capturing tasks demonstrated by a human expert. Afterwards, the recorded demonstrated motions are processed and directly transferred into robot programs, which are utilized for execution of the demonstrated tasks by the robot. The methodology for the visual learning procedure has been developed by the applicant and his research team in the Robotics, Mechatronics and Automation Laboratory at Ryerson University. **** The proposed system is going to be either licensed to a robot manufacturer or commercialized through a start-up company, namely Visual Learning Robotics Inc. The project objectives encompass development of a prototype system for visual robotic learning, protection of the intellectual properties rights by submitting patent application, technology promotion and transfer to the receptors. The outcome of the project is a software package for visual learning that can be used by industrial companies employing robotic systems. The technology reduces the costs for development of robotic applications, and more important, it enables quick and intuitive programming of robots by end-users that do not necessarily have programming expertise. **** The technology receptors are manufacturing companies that employ robotic technology in their daily production, as well as robot manufacturers and software developing companies. The visual learning technology addresses the growing demand for automation in the manufacturing sector, as well as it advances the level of core competency of Canadian companies and streamlines their competitiveness in the global market. ******