CoAx: Collaborative Action Dataset for Human Motion Forecasting in an Industrial Workspace

Human robot collaboration in industrial workspaces where humans perform challenging assembly tasks has become too much; increasingly popular. Now that intention recognition and motion forecasting is being more and more successful in different research fields, we want to transfer that success (and the algorithms making this success possible) to human motion forecasting in an industrial context. Therefore, we present a novel public dataset comprising several industrial assembly tasks, one of which incorporates interaction with a robot. The dataset covers 3 industrial work tasks with robot interaction performed by 6 subjects with 10 repetitions per subject summing up to 1 hour and 58 minutes of video material. We also evaluate the dataset with two baseline methods. One approach is solely velocity-based and the other one is using timeseries classification to infer the future motion of the human worker.