Effects of movement speed and predictability in human–robot collaboration

Koppenborg, Markus; Nickel, Peter; Naber, Birgit; Lungfiel, Andy; Huelke, Michael

doi:10.1002/hfm.20703

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“…According to the seven papers in this category, robots were identified as participating in many of the future work environments ( Qureshi and Syed, 2014 ; Murashov et al ., 2016 ; Koppenborg et al ., 2017 ; Islam, 2018 ; Pham et al ., 2018 ; Pyke, 2018 ; Djebrouni and Wolbring, 2019 ). Key drivers for increased robot use include increasing labor costs and worker shortages ( Qureshi and Syed, 2014 ).…”

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Potential Scenarios and Hazards in the Work of the Future: A Systematic Review of the Peer-Reviewed and Gray Literatures

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Streit

Sheriff

et al. 2020

Annals of Work Exposures and Health

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It would be useful for researchers, practitioners, and decision-makers to anticipate the hazards that workers will face in the future. The focus of this study is a systematic review of published information to identify and characterize scenarios and hazards in the future of work. Eleven bibliographic databases were systematically searched for papers and reports published from 1999 to 2019 that described future of work scenarios or identified future work-related hazards. To compile a comprehensive collection of views of the future, supplemental and ad hoc searches were also performed. After screening all search records against a set of predetermined criteria, the review yielded 36 references (17 peer-reviewed, 4 gray, and 15 supplemental) containing scenarios. In these, the future of work was described along multiple conceptual axes (e.g. labor market changes, societal values, and manual versus cognitive work). Technology was identified as the primary driver of the future of work in most scenarios, and there were divergent views in the literature as to whether technology will create more or fewer jobs than it displaces. Workforce demographics, globalization, climate change, economic conditions, and urbanization were also mentioned as influential factors. Other important themes included human enhancement, social isolation, loneliness, worker monitoring, advanced manufacturing, hazardous exposures, sustainability, biotechnology, and synthetic biology. Pandemics have not been widely considered in the future of work literature, but the recent COVID-19 pandemic illustrates that was short-sighted. Pandemics may accelerate future of work trends and merit critical consideration in scenario development. Many scenarios described ‘new’ or ‘exacerbated’ psychosocial hazards of work, whereas comparatively fewer discussed physical, chemical, or biological hazards. Various preventive recommendations were identified. In particular, reducing stress associated with precarious work and its requirements of continual skill preparation and training was acknowledged as critical for protecting and promoting the health and well-being of the future workforce. In conclusion, the future of work will be comprised of diverse complex scenarios and a mosaic of old and new hazards. These findings may serve as the basis for considering how to shape the future of work.

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Potential Scenarios and Hazards in the Work of the Future: A Systematic Review of the Peer-Reviewed and Gray Literatures

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Streit

Sheriff

et al. 2020

Annals of Work Exposures and Health

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“…HRC systems offer an alternative to fully manual workstations, and it results in workstations gathering the strengths of both humans and robots. Typically, manufacturers introduce cobots in their production system to improve the level of safety, ergonomics, quality, flexibility, and reconfigurability (Krüger et al, 2009;Krüger et al, 2011;Koppenborg et al, 2017;Elprama et al, 2017;Hoecherl et al, 2018;Simões et al, 2019).…”

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Operations management issues in design and control of hybrid human-robot collaborative manufacturing systems: a survey

Hashemi-Petroodi

Thevenin

Kovalev

et al. 2020

Annual Reviews in Control

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A manufacturing system able to perform a high variety of tasks requires different types of resources. Fully automated systems using robots possess high speed, accuracy, tirelessness, and force, but they are expensive. On the other hand, human workers are intelligent, creative, flexible, and able to work with different tools in different situations. A combination of these resources forms a human-machine/robot (hybrid) system, where humans and robots perform a variety of tasks (manual, automated, and hybrid tasks) in a shared workspace. Contrarily to the existing surveys, this study is dedicated to operations management problems (focusing on the applications and features) for human and machine/robot collaborative systems in manufacturing. This research is divided into two types of interactions between human and automated components in manufacturing and assembly systems: dual resource constrained (DRC) and human-robot collaboration (HRC) optimization problems. Moreover, different characteristics of the workforce and machines/robots such as heterogeneity, homogeneity, and ergonomics are introduced. Finally, this paper identifies the optimization challenges and problems for hybrid systems. The existing literature on HRC focuses mainly on the robotic point of view and not on the operations management and optimization aspects. Therefore, the future research directions include the design of models and methods to optimize HRC systems in terms of ergonomics, safety, and throughput. In addition, studying flexibility and reconfigurability in hybrid systems is one of the main research avenues for future research.

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“…Besides, collaborative robots are different from other types of industrial robots as they will not serve the same purposes. Until now, industrial robots have been more isolated from humans for safety measures, whereas collaborative robots share the workspace with them [13,19]. Then, various tasks can be divided between humans and robots benefiting from each other's strengths.…”

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“…Besides the implementation itself, organizations must keep ensuring a safe work environment for their employees. This will require greater attention to safety features when choosing the robots and the integration of health and safety management practices [13,46]. Ultimately, the work that addressed managerial implication the most specifically comes from Charalambous and his collaborators [8,45].…”

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Human-Machine Interaction and Human Resource Management Perspective for Collaborative Robotics Implementation and Adoption

Libert¹,

Mosconi²,

Cadieux³

2020

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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The shift towards human-robot collaboration (HRC) has the potential to increase productivity and sustainability, while reducing costs for the manufacturing industries. Indeed, it holds great potential for workplaces, allowing individuals to forsake repetitive or physically demanding jobs to focus on safer and more fulfilling ones. Still, integration of humans and machines in organizations presents great challenges to IS scholars due to the complexity of aligning digitalization and human resources. A knowledge gap does persist about organizational implications when it comes to implement collaborative robotics in the workplace and to support proper HRC. Thus, this paper aims to identify recommended human resources management (HRM) practices from previous research about human-robot interaction (HRI). As our results highlight that few studies attempted to fill the gap, a conceptual framework is proposed. It integrates HRM practices, technology adoption dimensions and main determinants of HRC, in the objective to support collaborative robotics implementation in organizations.

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Effects of movement speed and predictability in human–robot collaboration

Cited by 104 publications

References 40 publications

Potential Scenarios and Hazards in the Work of the Future: A Systematic Review of the Peer-Reviewed and Gray Literatures

Potential Scenarios and Hazards in the Work of the Future: A Systematic Review of the Peer-Reviewed and Gray Literatures

Operations management issues in design and control of hybrid human-robot collaborative manufacturing systems: a survey

Human-Machine Interaction and Human Resource Management Perspective for Collaborative Robotics Implementation and Adoption

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