Abstract
The manufacturing industry has high expectations for the benefits of collaborative robots. The term collaborative robots, however, encompasses multiple levels of collaboration ranging from coexistence to joint object manipulation. We attempt to refine the levels of collaboration between human workers and collaborative robots by reviewing literature and using case study examples. Distinguishing between the different levels is important because of the requisite safety issues and for the purpose of designing and evaluating the worker aspects of human-robot interaction, e.g., acceptance and workflow. This work facilitates finding the best ways to implement future human-robot collaboration on the factory floor.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 93-98 |
| Journal | Procedia CIRP |
| Volume | 72 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2018 |
| MoE publication type | A1 Journal article-refereed |
| Event | 51st CIRP Conference on Manufacturing Systems, CIRP CMS 2018 - Stockholm, Sweden Duration: 16 May 2018 → 18 May 2018 |
Funding
This study was partially funded by Tekes—the Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation—and industrial partners collaborating in the project Next Generation Robotics.
Keywords
- coexistence
- collaboration
- collaborative robots
- cooperation
- evaluation
- human worker
- human-robot collaboration
- levels of collaboration
- safety
