A Proposal for Cooking Motion Generation Based on Maximizing the Margin of Task Achievement

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Cooking robots provide life-assistance and should be capable of performing suitable tasks using simple language instructions. While previous studies have employed LLMs to develop action plans for the upper symbolic layer, there are many issues regarding its connection to the lower physical layer. For example, considering scooping, although the motion to scoop food from a container can be generated, the actual task may still fail. This is because the executability of the desired task is not examined during the trajectory generation stage. In this study, we propose the “margin of task achievement” comprising two components, the “margin for interference” and the “margin for execution,” to evaluate the degree of task accomplishment, and propose a method to determine the optimal trajectory for the task and, if necessary, the switching of tools. In an experiment in which three different tools were used to perform the task of scooping green tea powder, the average success rate was 93.3%, which was 61.6 percentage points higher than that when the margin of task achievement was not considered. These results confirm the validity of the proposed method.