Offline programming is an intuitive and automatic programming generation technique that
does not use real robotic systems, thus greatly decreasing the downtime required for system …

This paper presents the Meta-Collaborative Workstation concept and a gesture-based robot
program builder software named MEGURU. The software is ROS-based, and it is publicly …

Collaborative industrial robot (cobot) systems are deployed to automate tasks or as a tool for
Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) scenarios, especially for manufacturing applications. A large …

Current trends in the design of manufacturing systems are aimed at shortening the pre-
production phase. Designing CAD (Computer Aided Design) data and creating simulation …

This paper presents a framework that integrates digital twin and virtual reality (VR)
technologies to improve the efficiency and safety of human–robot collaborative systems in …

Programming industrial robots is usually costly, tedious, and only feasible by experts.
Hence, these systems do not play a big role in small and medium sized enterprises. In this …

In the last decades, industrial manipulators have been used to speed up the production
process and also to perform tasks that may put humans at risk. Typical interfaces employed …

Under the fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0), Augmented Reality (AR) provides new
affordances for a variety of applications, such as AR-based human-robot interaction, virtual …

A central part of a robot programming system is its user interface. Oftentimes, its design and
development are neglected, although the user interface is the connection between the robot …

Modern collaborative and industrial robots are typically accompanied by proprietary control
interfaces, which may also offer basic teaching functionality. However, many such interfaces …