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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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Survey on human–robot collaboration in industrial settings: Safety, intuitive interfaces and applications
TL;DR: An extensive review on human–robot collaboration in industrial environment is provided, with specific focus on issues related to physical and cognitive interaction, and the commercially available solutions are presented.
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Assembly system design and operations for product variety
S.J. Hu,Jeonghan Ko,L. Weyand,Hoda A. ElMaraghy,Terje K. Lien,Yoram Koren,Helmut Bley,George Chryssolouris,Nabil Nasr,Moshe Shpitalni +9 more
TL;DR: A review of the state of the art research in the areas of assembly system design, planning and operations in the presence of product variety is presented in this article, where methods for assembly representation, sequence generation and assembly line balancing are reviewed and summarized.
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Progress and prospects of the human---robot collaboration
Arash Ajoudani,Andrea Maria Zanchettin,Serena Ivaldi,Alin Albu-Schaffer,Kazuhiro Kosuge,Oussama Khatib +5 more
TL;DR: The main purpose of this paper is to review the state-of-the-art on intermediate human–robot interfaces (bi-directional), robot control modalities, system stability, benchmarking and relevant use cases, and to extend views on the required future developments in the realm of human-robot collaboration.
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Collaborative manufacturing with physical human–robot interaction
Abstract: Although the concept of industrial cobots dates back to 1999, most present day hybrid human-machine assembly systems are merely weight compensators. Here, we present results on the development of a collaborative human-robot manufacturing cell for homokinetic joint assembly. The robot alternates active and passive behaviours during assembly, to lighten the burden on the operator in the first case, and to comply to his/her needs in the latter. Our approach can successfully manage direct physical contact between robot and human, and between robot and environment. Furthermore, it can be applied to standard position (and not torque) controlled robots, common in the industry. The approach is validated in a series of assembly experiments. The human workload is reduced, diminishing the risk of strain injuries. Besides, a complete risk analysis indicates that the proposed setup is compatible with the safety standards, and could be certified.
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Trends and challenges in robot manipulation
Aude Billard,Danica Kragic +1 more
TL;DR: The progress made in robotics to emulate humans’ ability to grab, hold, and manipulate objects is reviewed, with a focus on designing humanlike hands capable of using tools.
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Systematic workplace and assembly redesign for aging workforces
Michael F. Zaeh,Martin Prasch +1 more
TL;DR: This paper shows a new systematic approach and proposes the use of special degrees of freedom for a successful integration of elderly into value adding processes without declining productivity or changing approved assembly organization setups.
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A Dexterous Part-Holding Model for Handling Compliant Sheet Metal Parts
TL;DR: In this paper, a dexterous part-holding end effector model is proposed to predict part deformation more accurately for various modes of deformation and for a set of part holding end effectors locations.
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ReWINS: a distributed multi-RF sensor control network for industrial automation
TL;DR: This work extends the architecture of a unit system with hardware and software components, sans network support, for providing limited monitoring and control for industrial automation to address the issues faced by large-scale wireless industrial automation-networking, communication architecture, modularity, extendibility and fault tolerance.
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Robots and operators work hand in hand
TL;DR: Clear trend is emerging for safe robots that permit operator and robot to work without safety barriers separating them, according to reports from Automatica trade fair held in Munich.