Techniques of Teaching Skills to Sensor Guided Robots

Abstract

The paper discusses and asseses principal approaches for getting and programming fully formalizable (algorithmizable), non formalizable and adaptable tasks and subtasks for sensor guided robots (robot skills) in dependence on the human operator's skills and capabilities used for it. The main idea of the third approach consists of the direct transformation of the human operator's manual skills into an adapted algorithmic solution of the task by direct technological teach in (teaching of the task by doing) as a combination of the first two approaches. Naturally, the third approach requires a well ballanced relation between the human operator"s action and control strategies and the class of algorithmic structures to be adapted. First results of tests concerning this relation and the transformation of a man"s action into an adapted algorihmic solution are discussed on the basis of a very simple problem of following (predicting) a given contour as a first step to find out this question.