Synergetic Cooperation between Robots and Humans

Synergetic Cooperation between Robots and Humans
Author: Ebrahim Samer El Youssef
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 443
Release: 2024-01-03
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3031472721

CLAWAR 2023 is the 26th International Conference Series on Climbing and Walking Robots and Mobile Machine Support Technologies. The conference is organized by CLAWAR Association in collaboration with the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil, during October 2–4, 2023. This book provides the latest research and development findings and state-of-the-art insights into the mobile robotics and associated technologies in a diverse range of application scenarios, within the framework of “Synergetic Cooperation Between Robots and Humans”. The topics covered include climbing and inspection robots, education in robotics and robotics in education, hybrid and convertible UAVs, legged robots, multibody systems and mechanism design in robotics, planning and control, robotic navigation, robotics and neurotechnologies for healthcare improvements, and simulation and digital twins in robotic applications. The intended readership includes participants of CLAWAR 2023 conference, worldwide researchers, scientists, and educators in the areas of robotics and related topics. The book is also a good source for courses in robotics and automation, control engineering, mechanical engineering, and mechatronics.

Human-Human vs. Human-Robot Collaboration

Human-Human vs. Human-Robot Collaboration
Author: Lin Liu
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Total Pages: 51
Release: 2019-03-07
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 366889373X

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2019 in the subject Engineering - Industrial Engineering and Management, grade: 1,0, Vienna University of Technology, language: English, abstract: The research question of this thesis is: What relevant factors exist that enables humans and robots to collaborate most successfully to ensure optimal process-based workflows? Human-robot collaboration is a fairly new field of research, and for this reason, there has been barely shed light upon this topic up to today. Thus, the purpose of this work is to investigate and analyze which factors have an impact on the collaborative work of humans. Subsequently, based on this analysis of the relevant parameters, implications can be made for human-robot collaborations to ensure optimal work settings to facilitate effective teaming. The development of modern industrial robots is advancing year by year. Currently robots are more precise, faster and more powerful than ever before. However, despite these advancements, it is still unlikely that robots will reach the dexterity and intelligence of humans anytime soon. Therefore, at least for the foreseeable future, humans remain irreplaceable in many assembly operations. Still, this does not imply that humans and robots cannot benefit each other. On the contrary, combining the strengths of each individual creates new opportunities for collaboration and collaborative work. Robots exhibit high precision and repeatability, can handle heavy loads and operate without performance deterioration, even in difficult or dangerous environments. However, robot control systems quickly reach their limits in recognizing and handling unpredictable situations and uncertainties in their environment, which are normally no problem for humans. This is mainly due to the ability of humans to tackle unexpected obstacles, their awareness of a much larger part of the environment than formally declared and lastly humans show more dexterity in complex or sensitive tasks. Despite that humans are more prone to error, stress or fatigue, and their employment underlies strict health and safety regulations. Robots that interact with human beings are called collaborative robots or cobots for short. The goal of this very human-robot collaboration is not to replace the human but rather to create opportunities for humans and robots to work together towards a common aim by mutually increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of their team performance. This, for example, can be achieved by employing robots in sectors where manual labor is predominant.

Synergetic Cooperation between Robots and Humans

Synergetic Cooperation between Robots and Humans
Author: Ebrahim Samer El Youssef
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-12-02
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9783031472688

CLAWAR 2023 is the 26th International Conference Series on Climbing and Walking Robots and Mobile Machine Support Technologies. The conference is organized by CLAWAR Association in collaboration with the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil, during October 2–4, 2023. This book provides the latest research and development findings and state-of-the-art insights into the mobile robotics and associated technologies in a diverse range of application scenarios, within the framework of “Synergetic Cooperation Between Robots and Humans”. The topics covered include climbing and inspection robots, education in robotics and robotics in education, hybrid and convertible UAVs, legged robots, multibody systems and mechanism design in robotics, planning and control, robotic navigation, robotics and neurotechnologies for healthcare improvements, and simulation and digital twins in robotic applications. The intended readership includes participants of CLAWAR 2023 conference, worldwide researchers, scientists, and educators in the areas of robotics and related topics. The book is also a good source for courses in robotics and automation, control engineering, mechanical engineering, and mechatronics.

Trends in Control and Decision-Making for Human–Robot Collaboration Systems

Trends in Control and Decision-Making for Human–Robot Collaboration Systems
Author: Yue Wang
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 424
Release: 2017-01-24
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3319405330

This book provides an overview of recent research developments in the automation and control of robotic systems that collaborate with humans. A measure of human collaboration being necessary for the optimal operation of any robotic system, the contributors exploit a broad selection of such systems to demonstrate the importance of the subject, particularly where the environment is prone to uncertainty or complexity. They show how such human strengths as high-level decision-making, flexibility, and dexterity can be combined with robotic precision, and ability to perform task repetitively or in a dangerous environment. The book focuses on quantitative methods and control design for guaranteed robot performance and balanced human experience from both physical human-robot interaction and social human-robot interaction. Its contributions develop and expand upon material presented at various international conferences. They are organized into three parts covering: one-human–one-robot collaboration; one-human–multiple-robot collaboration; and human–swarm collaboration. Individual topic areas include resource optimization (human and robotic), safety in collaboration, human trust in robot and decision-making when collaborating with robots, abstraction of swarm systems to make them suitable for human control, modeling and control of internal force interactions for collaborative manipulation, and the sharing of control between human and automated systems, etc. Control and decision-making algorithms feature prominently in the text, importantly within the context of human factors and the constraints they impose. Applications such as assistive technology, driverless vehicles, cooperative mobile robots, manufacturing robots and swarm robots are considered. Illustrative figures and tables are provided throughout the book. Researchers and students working in controls, and the interaction of humans and robots will learn new methods for human–robot collaboration from this book and will find the cutting edge of the subject described in depth.

Advanced Human-Robot Collaboration in Manufacturing

Advanced Human-Robot Collaboration in Manufacturing
Author: Lihui Wang
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 457
Release: 2021-06-10
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3030691780

This book presents state-of-the-art research, challenges and solutions in the area of human–robot collaboration (HRC) in manufacturing. It enables readers to better understand the dynamic behaviour of manufacturing processes, and gives more insight into on-demand adaptive control techniques for industrial robots. With increasing complexity and dynamism in today’s manufacturing practice, more precise, robust and practical approaches are needed to support real-time shop-floor operations. This book presents a collection of recent developments and innovations in this area, relying on a wide range of research efforts. The book is divided into five parts. The first part presents a broad-based review of the key areas of HRC, establishing a common ground of understanding in key aspects. Subsequent chapters focus on selected areas of HRC subject to intense recent interest. The second part discusses human safety within HRC. The third, fourth and fifth parts provide in-depth views of relevant methodologies and algorithms. Discussing dynamic planning and monitoring, adaptive control and multi-modal decision making, the latter parts facilitate a better understanding of HRC in real situations. The balance between scope and depth, and theory and applications, means this book appeals to a wide readership, including academic researchers, graduate students, practicing engineers, and those within a variety of roles in manufacturing sectors.

Human-robot Collaboration in Challenging Environments

Human-robot Collaboration in Challenging Environments
Author: Gerald Brantner
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2018
Genre:
ISBN:

Being able to use robots for exploration and deployment in venues that are beyond human reach, or simply inhospitable, has been a longstanding ambition of scientists, engineers, and explorers across numerous fields. Robot technology promises to relieve humans from many inherently dangerous tasks, such as working in toxic or otherwise unsafe environments, or those that are simply inconvenient, such as involving repetitive motion or prolonged strain in confined spaces. Beyond the simple replacement of humans in such tasks, one of the main aims of robotic research has been to deploy robots in places that are inaccessible to humans and incompatible with their presence. Remotely operating robots are needed, for instance, in maintaining space stations, operating high-altitude facilities, and preparing infrastructure for human settlement in space, such as on Mars. Another environment that is largely inaccessible to humans is the deep sea, where the demand for manipulation (i.e. the physical interaction with the environment) arises from a wide range of potential applications including exploration of marine archaeological and natural sites, inspection, maintenance and repair of existing infrastructure, and, eventually, the construction of artificial installations for providing human access to extended operations at depth. Central to accomplishing such tasks is the establishing of robotic manipulation capabilities in unstructured environments. This flexible manipulation is one of the major challenges in robotics today. Currently, robotic manipulation is only successful in strictly controlled environments, those where operations are highly repetitive and where no humans are within proximity. In unstructured environments, robots have mostly served to provide passive mobility solutions for observation and mapping. Field deployment of dexterous manipulation capabilities in unknown environments is a special challenge because it requires what we term intelligence -- the capacity to perceive the local context and to make decisions based on these observations -- a characteristic well beyond the abilities of current autonomous systems. The aim of this dissertation is to present a framework for human-robot collaboration that through a combination of whole-body control, compliant skills, and human interfaces, enables the deployment of dexterous robotic manipulation in unstructured field environments. This synergy is created by distributing the workload between the human pilot and the humanoid robot in a way that leverages each of their inherent and complementary abilities. On the human's part these are higher-level cognition, perception, and decision-making, and on the robot's they are computation, controllable accuracy, and repeatability. We demonstrate this synergistic capacity through two field deployments in the deep sea. Throughout this work, I will use Ocean One, a humanoid underwater robot built at the Stanford Robotics Laboratory, for illustration and validation. While Ocean One is designed mechanically for sea operations, the presented framework generalizes to other domains -- on land, in the air, or in space. I present the constraint-consistent whole-body control architecture implemented on Ocean One, and include a detailed explanation of all tasks and their hierarchy, the handling of constraints such as collision avoidance (including with self), issues dealing with joint limits, and the resolution of actuation redundancy. The applied augmented object and virtual linkage models enable another higher level of abstraction allowing the direct control of manipulated objects through one or more robots. Through exploiting this architecture, the robot obtains functional autonomy, where a small set of human inputs is sufficient for controlling the high-DoF robot. I introduce the interfaces that permit connecting the human pilot to the robotic system at varying levels of control that work to decrease the demand for human intervention and increase the expressiveness of robot autonomy. These interfaces range from haptic teleoperation in avatar-mode, to haptic interaction at the level of the augmented object, to shared autonomy through skills supplemented with constraining haptic interaction, to simulation-mediated manipulation. Completing the picture will be a presentation of the live vision augmenting the pilot's perception and the graphical user interface that permits detailed control and assessment of Ocean One's operation. I validate the controller and the human interfaces using both simulation and practical deployments; the former through experiments on computers, and the latter with experiments in the laboratory and progressing to true in-the-field demonstrations at the Stanford Aquatic Center. As ultimate test of the methods to be described, we sent Ocean One on two challenging sea deployments. On its maiden mission -- into the Mediterranean -- Ocean One explored and recovered archaeological remnants from the ruins of the Lune, Louis XIV's two-decked, 54-gun flagship that sank in 1664 at about 100-meter depth off the coast of Toulon, France. In its second expedition, Ocean One assisted a team of human divers in investigating underwater volcanic structures off the coast of Santorini, Greece.

Social Robots: Technological, Societal and Ethical Aspects of Human-Robot Interaction

Social Robots: Technological, Societal and Ethical Aspects of Human-Robot Interaction
Author: Oliver Korn
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2019-07-01
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3030171078

Social robots not only work with humans in collaborative workspaces – we meet them in shopping malls and even more personal settings like health and care. Does this imply they should become more human, able to interpret and adequately respond to human emotions? Do we want them to help elderly people? Do we want them to support us when we are old ourselves? Do we want them to just clean and keep things orderly – or would we accept them helping us to go to the toilet, or even feed us if we suffer from Parkinson’s disease? The answers to these questions differ from person to person. They depend on cultural background, personal experiences – but probably most of all on the robot in question. This book covers the phenomenon of social robots from the historic roots to today’s best practices and future perspectives. To achieve this, we used a hands-on, interdisciplinary approach, incorporating findings from computer scientists, engineers, designers, psychologists, doctors, nurses, historians and many more. The book also covers a vast spectrum of applications, from collaborative industrial work over education to sales. Especially for developments with a high societal impact like robots in health and care settings, the authors discuss not only technology, design and usage but also ethical aspects. Thus this book creates both a compendium and a guideline, helping to navigate the design space for future developments in social robotics.

What To Expect When You're Expecting Robots

What To Expect When You're Expecting Robots
Author: Laura Major
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2020-10-13
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1541699106

The next generation of robots will be truly social, but can we make sure that they play well in the sandbox? Most robots are just tools. They do limited sets of tasks subject to constant human control. But a new type of robot is coming. These machines will operate on their own in busy, unpredictable public spaces. They'll ferry deliveries, manage emergency rooms, even grocery shop. Such systems could be truly collaborative, accomplishing tasks we don't do well without our having to stop and direct them. This makes them social entities, so, as robot designers Laura Major and Julie Shah argue, whether they make our lives better or worse is a matter of whether they know how to behave. What to Expect When You're Expecting Robots offers a vision for how robots can survive in the real world and how they will change our relationship to technology. From teaching them manners, to robot-proofing public spaces, to planning for their mistakes, this book answers every question you didn't know you needed to ask about the robots on the way.

Human-Robot Interaction

Human-Robot Interaction
Author: Christoph Bartneck
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2024-06-27
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 100942422X

The role of robots in society keeps expanding and diversifying, bringing with it a host of issues surrounding the relationship between robots and humans. This introduction to human–robot interaction (HRI) by leading researchers in this developing field is the first to provide a broad overview of the multidisciplinary topics central to modern HRI research. Written for students and researchers from robotics, artificial intelligence, psychology, sociology, and design, it presents the basics of how robots work, how to design them, and how to evaluate their performance. Self-contained chapters discuss a wide range of topics, including speech and language, nonverbal communication, and processing emotions, plus an array of applications and the ethical issues surrounding them. This revised and expanded second edition includes a new chapter on how people perceive robots, coverage of recent developments in robotic hardware, software, and artificial intelligence, and exercises for readers to test their knowledge.

Proactive Human-Robot Collaboration Toward Human-Centric Smart Manufacturing

Proactive Human-Robot Collaboration Toward Human-Centric Smart Manufacturing
Author: Shufei Li
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2024-06-03
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 044313944X

Proactive Human–Robot Collaboration Toward Human-Centric Smart Manufacturing is driven by an appreciation of manufacturing scenarios where human and robotic agents can understand each other’s actions and conduct mutual-cognitive, predictable, and self-organizing teamwork. Modern factories’ smart manufacturing transformation and the evolution of relationships between humans and robots in manufacturing tasks set the scene for a discussion on the technical fundamentals of state-of-the-art proactive human–robot collaboration; these are further elaborated into the three main steps (i.e., mutual-cognitive and empathic coworking; predictable spatio-temporal collaboration; self-organizing multiagent teamwork) to achieve an advanced form of symbiotic HRC with high-level, dynamic-reasoning teamwork skills. The authors then present a deployment roadmap and several case studies, providing step-by-step guidance for real-world application of these ground-breaking methods which crucially contribute to the maturing of human-centric, sustainable, and resilient production systems. The volume proves to be an invaluable resource that supports understanding and learning for users ranging from upper undergraduate/graduate students and academic researchers to engineering professionals in a variety of industry contexts. Offers pioneering information on an industry 5.0 topic that has attracted much research interest in recent years Takes advantage of a structured and comprehensive approach to seamlessly combine theory, latest technological developments, and their practical applications Includes actionable methods, while conceptualizing future implications for smart manufacturing