Position teaching of a robot arm by demonstration with a wearable input device

Abstract

This paper describes the first prototype of a "Programming by demonstration" (PbD) system for position teaching of a robot manipulator. A new approach for enabling PbD using supervised learning is presented, by connecting a wearable input device for sensing human arm movements to the software controller of a robot arm. The method does not require analytical modelling of either the human arm or robot, and can be customised for di#erent users and robots. Initial experiments on some simple movements tasks are presented.