Assistive Technology Partners (ATP), part of the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, has been funded by the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center for the Advancement of Cognitive Technologies (RERC-ACT) to develop smart assembly work stations. Imagine! consumers, including some of our SmartHome residents, are helping to test the prototype work stations.
The video below demonstrates the prototype workstation. The workstation “watches” an assembly line person, and can prompt them through the series of steps necessary to complete an assembly line job. Using web cams as its eyes, the work station can determine the activity currently being performed. Using the “work stations eyes” in conjunction with sophisticated Human Robotic Interface (HRI) software, the work station can assess what the next steps are when building an assembly.
The idea behind this project is that a sophisticated prompting system that can react to actions as they happen, and provide appropriate prompts accordingly, will open more doors to employment opportunities for individuals with developmental disabilities and related disabilities.
The system is in the very early development phase, but ATP hopes to begin research testing with the system on a larger scale in 2012.
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