Pointing at Moving Robots: Detecting Events from Wrist IMU Data

Gabriele Abbate,Boris Gromov,Luca M. Gambardella,Alessandro Giusti,Gabriele Abbate,Boris Gromov,Luca M. Gambardella,Alessandro Giusti

We propose a practical approach for detecting the event that a human wearing an IMU-equipped bracelet points at a moving robot; the approach uses a learned classifier to verify if the robot motion (as measured by its odometry) matches the wrist motion, and does not require that the relative pose of the operator and robot is known in advance. To train the model and validate the system, we collect d...