TY - JFULL AU - Bastian Hartmann and Christoph Schauer and Norbert Link PY - 2009/11/ TI - Worker Behavior Interpretation for Flexible Production T2 - International Journal of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering SP - 1223 EP - 1232 VL - 3 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10981 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 34, 2009 N2 - This paper addresses the problem of recognizing and interpreting the behavior of human workers in industrial environments for the purpose of integrating humans in software controlled manufacturing environments. In this work we propose a generic concept in order to derive solutions for task-related manual production applications. Thus, we are able to use a versatile concept providing flexible components and being less restricted to a specific problem or application. We instantiate our concept in a spot welding scenario in which the behavior of a human worker is interpreted when performing a welding task with a hand welding gun. We acquire signals from inertial sensors, video cameras and triggers and recognize atomic actions by using pose data from a marker based video tracking system and movement data from inertial sensors. Recognized atomic actions are analyzed on a higher evaluation level by a finite state machine. ER -