From design for assembly to design for collaborative assembly-product design principles for enhancing safety, ergonomics and efficiency in human-robot collaboration

L Gualtieri, GP Monizza, E Rauch, R Vidoni, DT Matt - Procedia CIRP, 2020 - Elsevier
Over the past decades, product design has been very much concerned with the topics of
Design for Manufacturing and Design for Assembly. The aim was to design products in such …

Survey of human–robot collaboration in industrial settings: Awareness, intelligence, and compliance

S Kumar, C Savur, F Sahin - IEEE Transactions on Systems …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Industrial robots working in isolation in a highly automated system are valued for their high
productivity. The shortcomings of these pure robotic cells become more apparent when …

Foundation for a classification of collaboration levels for human-robot cooperation in manufacturing

A Kolbeinsson, E Lagerstedt… - … & Manufacturing Research, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Industry 4.0 aims to support the factory of the future, involving increased use of information
systems and new ways of using automation, such as collaboration where a robot and a …

Design of human robot collaboration workstations–two automotive case studies

D Andronas, A Argyrou, K Fourtakas… - Procedia …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Human Robot Collaboration assembly cells benefit the capabilities and skills of
both industrial robots and humans, although fenceless coexistence leads to issues related to …

A structured methodology for the design of a human-robot collaborative assembly workplace

JC Mateus, D Claeys, V Limère, J Cottyn… - … International Journal of …, 2019 - Springer
The trend towards mass customization puts traditional automation solutions under pressure.
In addition, an aging working population increases the need to improve ergonomics at the …

A mixed-perception approach for safe human–robot collaboration in industrial automation

F Mohammadi Amin, M Rezayati, HW van de Venn… - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
Digital-enabled manufacturing systems require a high level of automation for fast and low-
cost production but should also present flexibility and adaptiveness to varying and dynamic …

Flexible human–robot cooperation models for assisted shop-floor tasks

K Darvish, F Wanderlingh, B Bruno, E Simetti… - Mechatronics, 2018 - Elsevier
The Industry 4.0 paradigm emphasizes the crucial benefits that collaborative robots, ie,
robots able to work alongside and together with humans, could bring to the whole …

Functional integration of a robotics software framework into a human simulation system

K Lemmerz, P Glogowski, A Hypki… - ISR 2018; 50th …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Human-robot collaboration (HRC) in assembly aims to combine the special skills of human
workers and robots in order to increase productivity in flexible assembly processes and …

A human-in-the-loop cyber-physical system for collaborative assembly in smart manufacturing

MAR Garcia, R Rojas, L Gualtieri, E Rauch, D Matt - Procedia CIRP, 2019 - Elsevier
Industry 4.0 rose with the introduction of cyber-physical systems (CPS) and Internet of things
(IoT) inside manufacturing systems. CPS represent self-controlled physical processes …

Purposeful Communication in Human–Robot Collaboration: A Review of Modern Approaches in Manufacturing

R Salehzadeh, J Gong, N Jalili - IEEE Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The uncertainties arising from the imperfection of the shared understanding during human-
robot collaboration (HRC) are critical challenges in the development of real-world robots …