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Cooperation of human and machines in assembly lines
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In this article, a survey about forms of human-machine cooperation in assembly and available technologies that support the cooperation is presented, including organizational and economic aspects of cooperative assembly including efficient component supply and logistics.About:
This article is published in CIRP Annals.The article was published on 2009-01-01. It has received 667 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Flexibility (engineering) & Robot.read more
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Task-Agnostic Adaptation for Safe Human-Robot Handover
TL;DR: A task-agnostic adaptable controller that can adapt to lighting conditions, adapt to individual behaviors and ensure safety when interacting with different humans, and enable easy transfer across robot platforms with di-erent control interfaces is proposed.
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Improved Capacitive Proximity Detection for Conductive Objects through Target Profile Estimation
TL;DR: The presented approach alleviates large errors in distance estimation by implementing a classifier to recognize the surface profiles before using a suitable regression model to estimate the distance, which reduces the close-distance measurement error by a factor of five.
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The Working Posture Controller—Automated Assessment and Optimisation of the Working Posture During the Process
Carla Pilz,Jörg Krüger +1 more
TL;DR: The Working Posture Controller is presented, a novel technology to help workers preventing posture-related Musculo-skeletal disorders that does not require tedious work place design or process planning, since it automatises these steps.
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Looking forward via the Past: An Investigation of the Evolution of the Knowledge Base of Robotics Firms
Estolatan Eric,Aldo Geuna +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the evolution of the knowledge bases of two leading EU robotics firms -KUKA and COMAU -and find that while these enterprises maintain an outward-looking innovation propensity and a diversified knowledge base they tend to have a higher preference for continuity and stability of their existing technical knowledge sets.
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Real-time multitask multihuman-robot interaction based on context awareness
TL;DR: In this paper , a context awareness multi-human-robot interaction (MHRI) system is presented, which allows multiple operators to interact with a robot by regressing a set of 2D joints representations of body parts.
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Robot Vision
TL;DR: Robot Vision as discussed by the authors is a broad overview of the field of computer vision, using a consistent notation based on a detailed understanding of the image formation process, which can provide a useful and current reference for professionals working in the fields of machine vision, image processing, and pattern recognition.
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Stable haptic interaction with virtual environments
Richard Adams,Blake Hannaford +1 more
TL;DR: By decoupling the haptic display control problem from the design of virtual environments, the use of a virtual coupling network frees the developer of haptic-enabled virtual reality models from issues of mechanical stability.
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Towards a 3g crawling robot through the integration of microrobot technologies
TL;DR: This paper discusses the biomimetic design and assembly of a 3g self-contained crawling robot fabricated through the integrated use of various microrobot technologies and presents results of both the kinematic and static analyses of the driving mechanism that essentially consists of three slider cranks in series.
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Fast and "soft-arm" tactics [robot arm design]
Antonio Bicchi,G. Tonietti +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors considered the problem of designing joint-actuation mechanisms that can allow fast and accurate operation of a robot arm, while guaranteeing a suitably limited level of injury risk.
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Robust control of dynamically interacting systems
J.E. Colgate,Neville Hogan +1 more
TL;DR: This paper describes an approach to the design of ‘interaction controllers’ and contrasts this with an Approach to the Design of Approaches toDynamic interaction with the environment is fundamental to the process of manipulation.