Application of Keypoint Recognition for Industrial Human-Robot Safe Collaboration Scenarios

With the advent of Industry 5.0 and the rise of human-centered intelligent manufacturing, people have paid increasing attention to the issue of security in human-machine collaboration. Developing safe human-robot cooperation in constrained environments has emerged as the primary area of research interest. Vision systems with deep learning have gradually supplanted more conventional approaches, such electronic wearables, electronic fences, and lidar techniques, to ensure safe collaboration. Object identification and posture estimation are two techniques that are currently in use to forecast distances in space more accurately. These techniques can track the approximate locations of humans and robots in real-time, significantly lowering the likelihood of safety incidents. Still, more accurate evaluation of the relative positions of humans and robots is needed for effective collaboration. This paper suggests SCC-HRNet, an efficient key point recognition technique. SCC-HRNet is able to find the important feature points of both humans and robots more precisely in dual-camera human-robot safe collaboration scenarios. Using our human-robot collaboration dataset, SCC-HRNet outperforms other algorithms with an average precision gain of 1.6%, correctly identifying key points.