Cooking with robots: designing a household system working in open environments

We propose a cooking system that operates in an open environment. The system cooks a meal by pouring various ingredients into a boiling pot on an induction heating cooker and adjusts the heating strength according to the user’s instructions. We then describe how the system incorporates robotic- and human-specific elements in a shared workspace so as to achieve a cooperative rudimentary cooking capability. First, we use small mobile robots instead of built-in arms to save space, improve flexibility and increase safety. Second, we use detachable visual markers to allow the user to easily configure the realworld environment. Third, we provide a graphical user interface to display detailed cooking instructions to the user. We hope insights obtained in this experiment will be useful for the design of other household systems in the future. Author Keywords Cooking procedure, cooking interface, cooking with robots, human-robot interaction ACM Classification Keywords H.5.2. Information inter...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2010
• Where: CHI
• Authors: Yuta Sugiura, Daisuke Sakamoto, Anusha Indrajith Withana, Masahiko Inami, Takeo Igarashi
• Keywords: CHI 2010, Cooking, Human Computer Interaction, Keywords Cooking Procedure, Rudimentary Cooking Capability