Automation using Robot Programming by Demonstration Technique

Presently Programming the robot is a becoming daunting task. Inaccurate, inconsistent and unexpected results may be occurred because of Direct Programming of the robots & also it may take lots of time for programming. Also due to the costs involved in the development and maintenance of robot programming technique, automatic programming techniques and Robot Programming by (Human) Demonstration (RPD) techniques are currently attracting a lot of interest. Paper aims to build a robotic arm, which is provided with the sensors to sense and record parameters and the motors to repeat an action that is demonstrated by the human, so that accurate and efficient program is being generated. RPD is an intuitive method to program a robot. A human demonstrator with his/her hand, teaches an action to the robot, by physically interacting with it to perform an action. This allows the measurement and recording of the human’s positional and other parameters that are relevant to perform the demonstrated action.