Analysis of cooking recipes written in Japanese and motion planning for cooking robot

Abstract

Many cooking robots have been developed in response to the increasing demand for such robots. However, most existing robots must be programmed according to specific recipes to enable cooking using robotic arms, which requires considerable time and expertise. Therefore, this paper proposes a method to allow a robot to cook by analyzing recipes available on the internet, without any recipe-specific programming. The proposed method can be used to plan robot motion based on the analysis of the cooking procedure for a recipe. We developed a cooking robot to execute the proposed method and evaluated the effectiveness of this approach by analyzing 50 recipes. More than 25 recipes could be cooked using the proposed approach.