Publication
WiCoSens: a wearable, intelligent color sensing platform for non-invasive storage shelf identification
Orkhan Amiraslanov; Hymalai Bello; Gerald Pirkl; Peter Hevesi; Paul Lukowicz
In: ISWC '17. IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC-17), located at 21st, September 11-15, Maui, HI, USA, Pages 102-105, ISBN 978-1-4503-5188-1, ACM, New York, 9/2017.
Abstract
Reaching out onto a shelf or into a cabinet and taking something out is a fundamental part of many activities. In our daily life we carry out several picking and placing actions from/to shelves, cupboards, racks, containers, etc.. With enough instrumentation identifying the shelf from which something has been taken is not a fundamental problem. However, reliably detecting specific shelf from which something has been taken with an unobtrusive and cheap setup remains, in general, an open problem. As a solution we developed WiCoSens - a wrist worn color sensor (CS) array to detect color coded surfaces. We describe the hardware design, the identification method and a simple color coded shelf setup to evaluate the system. Initial results show 100% accuracy with user independent training.