Recipe Analysis Method and Implementation for Motion Planning of Cooking Robot

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