Design method of human–industrial robot collaborative workstation with industrial application

Ore, Fredrik; Sánchez, Juan Luis Jiménez; Wiktorsson, Magnus; Hanson, Lars

doi:10.1080/0951192x.2020.1815844

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“…They focused in particular on safety, ergonomics, time, and performance. Although [35][36][37][38] look in the same direction as the current work, they do not place enough emphasis on the safety aspect. In [39], the authors focus their work on the safety for human operators.…”

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confidence: 88%

“…The approach does not consider compliance with the reference standard in the decision making framework. Ore et al [36] identified the lack of methods supporting efficient HRC workstation design. They propose a step-by-step method useful in the early phases of the workstation design in the context of the Human-Industrial Robot Collaboration (HIRC).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Collaborative Workplace Design: A Knowledge-Based Approach to Promote Human–Robot Collaboration and Multi-Objective Layout Optimization

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The innovation-driven Industry 5.0 leads us to consider humanity in a prominent position as the center of the manufacturing field even more than Industry 4.0. This pushes us towards the hybridization of manufacturing plants promoting a full collaboration between humans and robots. However, there are currently very few workplaces where effective Human–Robot Collaboration takes place. Layout designing plays a key role in assuring safe and efficient Human–Robot Collaboration. The layout design, especially in the context of collaborative robotics, is a complex problem to face, since it is related to safety, ergonomics, and productivity aspects. In the current work, a Knowledge-Based Approach (KBA) is adopted to face the complexity of the layout design problem. The framework resulting from the KBA allows for developing a modeling paradigm that enables us to define a streamlined approach for the layout design. The proposed approach allows for placing resource within the workplace according to a defined optimization criterion, and also ensures compliance with various standards. This approach is applied to an industrial case study in order to prove its feasibility. A what-if analysis is performed by applying the proposed approach. Changing three control factors (i.e., minimum distance, robot speed, logistic space configuration) on three levels, in a Design of Experiments, 27 layout configurations of the same workplace are generated. Consequently, the inputs that most affect the layout design are identified by means of an Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). The results show that only one layout is eligible to be the best configuration, and only two out of three control factors are very significant for the designing of the HRC workplace layout. Hence, the proposed approach enables the designing of standard compliant and optimized HRC workplace layouts. Therefore, several alternatives of the layout for the same workplace can be easily generated and investigated in a systematic manner.

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confidence: 88%

Section: State Of Artmentioning

confidence: 99%

Collaborative Workplace Design: A Knowledge-Based Approach to Promote Human–Robot Collaboration and Multi-Objective Layout Optimization

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“…Fetcher et al (Fechter, Seeber, and Chen 2018) attach this mismatch to missing planning and design tools for collaborative workplaces. Ore et al (2020) claim that one of the main reasons for the shortage of HRC industrial applications is related to the lack of detailed guidelines and structured methods that lead engineers in each step of the collaborative work cell design. Land et al (2020) also pointed out the lack of guidelines and proposed a framework for the HRC development based on virtual simulation.…”

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A human-oriented design process for collaborative robotics

Papetti

Ciccarelli

Scoccia

et al. 2022

International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing

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The potential of collaborative robotics often does not materialize in an efficient design of the human-robot collaboration. Technology-oriented approaches are no longer enough in the Industry 4.0 era. This work proposes a set of methods to support manufacturing engineers in the humanoriented design process of integrated production systems to obtain satisfactory performance in the mass customization paradigm, without impacting the safety and health of workers. It founds the design criteria definition on five main pillars (safety, ergonomics, effectiveness, flexibility, and costs), favors the consideration of different design alternatives, and leads their selection. The dynamic impact of the design choices on the various elements of the system prevails over the static design constraints. The method has been experimented in collaboration with the major kitchen manufacturer in Italy, which introduced a collaborative robotics cell in the drawers' assembly line. It resulted in a more balanced production line (10% more), a verified risk minimization (RULA score reduced from 5 to 3 and OCRA score from 13.30 to 5.70), and a greater allocation of operators to high added value activities.

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“…The use case was the collaborative assembly of the seat of custom-made pedal cars, which in reality is used as an actual training scenario at a truck manufacturer. The simulation was programmed within the software IPS IMMA (Ore et al, 2020). The video showed the HRC from a bird's eye view.…”

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Working with Industrial Cobots: The Influence of Reliability and Transparency on Perception and Trust

Kluy

Roesler

2021

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual

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Industrial human-robot collaboration (HRC) is not yet widely spread but on the rise. This development raises the question about properties collaborative robots (cobots) need, to enable a pleasant and smooth interaction. Therefore, this study investigated the influence of transparency and reliability on perception of and trust towards cobots. A video-enhanced online study with 124 participants was conducted. Transparency was provided through the presentation of differing information, and reliability was manipulated through differing error rates. The results showed a positive effect of transparency on perceived safety and intelligence. Reliability had a positive effect on perceived intelligence, likeability and trust. The effect of reliability on trust was more pronounced for low transparent robots. The results indicate the relevance of carefully selected information to counteract negative effects of failures. Future research should transfer the study design into a real-life experiment with more fine-grained levels of transparency and reliability.

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Design method of human–industrial robot collaborative workstation with industrial application

Cited by 14 publications

References 28 publications

Collaborative Workplace Design: A Knowledge-Based Approach to Promote Human–Robot Collaboration and Multi-Objective Layout Optimization

Collaborative Workplace Design: A Knowledge-Based Approach to Promote Human–Robot Collaboration and Multi-Objective Layout Optimization

A human-oriented design process for collaborative robotics

Working with Industrial Cobots: The Influence of Reliability and Transparency on Perception and Trust

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