Measurements of Mental Stress and Safety Awareness during Human Robot Collaboration -Review

Abstract

Human-robot collaboration is an emerging research area that has gained tremendous attention in both academia and industry. Yet, the feature that human and robot sharing the workplace has led to safety concerns. In particular, the psychological states of human teammates during human-robot collaboration remains unclear but is also of great importance to workplace safety. This manuscript briefly reviewed possible direct and indirect measures that can be used to evaluate workers’ mental stress and safety awareness during human robot collaboration. It was concluded that each measure reviewed in this paper has its validity and rationality, and a combination of different methods may provide a more comprehensive and accurate assessment.