Safety-based human-robot collaboration in cellular manufacturing: A case study of power protector assembly

Hu, Jhen-Jia; Huang, Chung-Ning; Wang, Hau-Wei; Shieh, Po-Huang; Hu, Jwu‐Sheng

doi:10.1109/aris.2013.6573529

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“…Several studies show the advantage of combining robots and humans in a workstation. Compared to a fully manual station, HRC stations lead to a better safety, productivity, and quality in flexible assembly lines , 2018, and in cellular manufacturing systems (Tan et al, 2009;Kato et al, 2010;Hu et al, 2013). For instance, Fast-Berglund, et al 2016…”

Section: Resource Skillsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…There exist methods for the design of HRC systems in cellular manufacturing systems (Tan et al, 2009(Tan et al, , 2010, flexible assembly lines , 2018, and cellular manufacturing systems (Kato et al, 2010;Hu et al, 2013). The typical methods to tackle operations management problems in HRC systems include linear/non-linear programing (Hu & Chen, 2017;Bogner et al, 2018), (mixed-)integer programing (Weckenborg et al, 2019), heuristics (Bogner et al, 2018) metaheuristics algorithms (Chen et al, 2013;Weckenborg et al, 2019), multi-criteria evaluation approach (Michalos et al, 2018b), and simulation models (Darvish et al, 2018;Bänziger et al, 2018).…”

Section: Operations Management In Hrc Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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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

103

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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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