Skill-Based Edge-Brain Smart Manufacturing: A Case of Grasp Pose Selection Skill.

The edge-brain framework (EBF) is a S/W framework that allows manufacturers to easily integrate AI-empowered robot work skills into a legacy production system in an edge computing environment with minimal time and effort. For EBF-based smart manufacturing, is a skill-based task-level robot programming environment that plays a key role. In this paper, we present the grasp pose selection skill as a case study to demonstrate the proposed skill-based edge-brain smart manufacturing. The proposed grasp-pose selection skill determines the optimal 6D grasp pose associated with the target object in a cluttered workspace by taking into consideration grasp stability, object manipulability, and collision-free path efficacy. To achieve a real-time operation of optimal grasp pose selection skill, deep learning networks are designed to compute, in particular, the manipulability and collision-free path efficacy indices. Experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed real-time grasp pose selection skill developed for EBF-based smart manufacturing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]