Fuzzy Controlled Flower Arrangement Robot

Abstract

A flower arrangement robot system has been built in order to realize human intelligence and artistic impression by a robot system. Fundamental flower arrangement style in Ikenobo school has been realized, where 3 trees and 3 flowers are used. Two arm robots rotate each tree or flower. Their shapes are recognized by the CCD camera silhouette image. Then the arrangement position on a "kenzan" is decided by using fuzzy inference algorithm, where a modified version of Mizumoto's contributed value method is applied to the unification process of the fuzzy inference which makes it possible to realize the variety of flower arrangement process.