Human intention recognition method based on context awareness and graph attention network for human-robot collaborative assembly
Aiming at the problem that existing research has not yet fully utilized the three-dimensional spatial and vis-ual features of various elements in the complex assembly environment,and has not considered the rich contextual in-formation in the assembly environment,making the accuracy of intention recognition low,a method combining the three-dimensional spatial and visual information of the elements in the assembly environment and realizes the high-precision recognition of the human worker's operation intention based on the graph attention network was proposed.The Faster R-CNN was utilized to detect various elements in the assembly scene such as human workers,robots,obtain the spatial information of each element,and extract the visual feature information of each element from the network.Then,the graph attention network was utilized to reason the human worker's interaction intention toward different parts during assembly,such as handling,assembly and dragging.A gear assembly case study was used to verify that the proposed method.The experiment result showed that the proposed method could achieve higher per-formance in recognition accuracy and scene generalization compared with the deep convolutional neural network.