Education is facing challenges to keep pace with the widespread introduction of robots and digital technologies in industry and everyday life. These challenges necessitate new approaches to impart students at all levels of education with the knowledg...
While traditional industrial robots participate in repetitive manufacturing processes from behind caged safety enclosures, collaborative robots (cobots) offer a highly flexible and human-interactive solution to manufacturing automation. Rather than o...
There has been a rapid increase in the use of collaborative robots in manufacturing industries within the context of Industry 4.0 and smart factories. The existing human–robot interactions, simulations, and robot programming methods do not fit...
Small-scale production is relying more and more on personalization and flexibility as an innovation key for success in response to market needs such as diversification of consumer preferences and/or greater regulatory pressure. This can be possible t...
We introduce a modeling framework aimed at incorporating symbolic discrete controller synthesis (DCS) into a virtual robot experimental platform. This framework involves symbolically representing the behaviors of robotic systems along with their cont...
The world is living the fourth industrial revolution, marked by the increasing intelligence and automation of manufacturing systems. Nevertheless, there are types of tasks that are too complex or too expensive to be fully automated, it would be more...
The increased demand for cost-efficient manufacturing and metrology inspection solutions for complex-shaped components in High-Value Manufacturing (HVM) sectors requires increased production throughput and precision. This drives the integration of au...
Efficient and intuitive programming strategies are essential for enabling robots to adapt to small-batch, high-mix production scenarios. Mixed reality (MR) and programming by demonstration (PbD) have shown great potential to lower the programming bar...
The paper deals with a lead-through method of programming for industrial robots. The goal is to automatically reproduce 6DoF trajectories of a tool wielded by a human operator demonstrating a motion task. We present a novel motion-tracking system bui...
Seamless human–robot collaboration requires the equipping of robots with cognitive capabilities that enable their awareness of the environment, as well as the actions that take place inside the assembly cell. This paper proposes an AI-based system co...
Collaborative robots are rapidly gaining popularity and will occupy 33% of the industrial robot market by 2030 due to their ability to adapt to dynamic environments where traditional automation approaches lack flexibility. Available solutions in the...
Human–robot collaboration (HRC) can be defined as the close interaction between a human user and a robot working together to accomplish a specific task. True collaboration, however, can only be realized when humans and robots can share the same...
The growing demand for projects with collaborative robots, known as “cobots”, underlines the need to efficiently address the execution of tasks with speed and flexibility, without neglecting safety in human–robot interaction. In gen...
The rapid evolution of robotics across various sectors, including healthcare, manufacturing, and domestic applications, has underscored a significant workforce skills gap. The shortage of qualified professionals in the labor market has had adverse ef...
This paper describes RTMN 2.0, an extension of the modeling language RTMN. RTMN combines process modeling and robot execution. Intuitive robot programming allows those without programming expertise to plan and control robots through easily understand...
Galenic preparations are patient-centered medicines prepared by pharmacists or veterinarians, which allow personalizing dosages, overcoming allergy problems, reducing costs, and dealing with rare diseases. However, the current manual production proce...
Human–Robot Collaboration (HRC) is an interdisciplinary research area that has gained attention within the smart manufacturing context. To address changes within manufacturing processes, HRC seeks to combine the impressive physical capabilities...
Traditional manual assembly is limited in terms of both efficiency and quality. In contrast, robots are characterized by rapidness and accuracy and can cooperate with humans to perform complex tasks. Human–robot collaboration may hold the poten...
The aim of the study is a multi-criteria comparative evaluation of robots cooperating with humans in single- and dual-arm variants used for the process of precise assembly of complex parts. RobotStudio simulation software with the Signal Analyzer add...
The evolution of information technology and the great advances in artificial intelligence are leading to a level of automation that has never been reached before. A large part of this level of automation is due to the use of robotics, which in turn e...
In welding automation, growing interest can be recognized in applying teams of industrial robots to perform manufacturing processes through collaboration. Although robot teamwork can increase profitability and cost-effectiveness in production, the pr...
With the development of Industry 4.0, collaborative mobile robots are becoming increasingly prevalent in industrial settings, raising important safety considerations in human–robot interaction environments. This study examines the safety issues...
There is a growing presence of technology in the daily lives of elementary school students, with a recent exponential rise due to the constraints of remote teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is important to understand how the education system...
Movement–process collaborative compound robots are an important part of intelligent factory logistics systems, and they usually have two control systems located in the movement platform and the process platform. Interaction between the two plat...
Most robots are programmed to carry out specific tasks routinely with minor variations. However, more and more applications from SMEs require robots work alongside their counterpart human workers. To smooth the collaboration task flow and improve the...
Human–robot collaboration (HRC) provides the opportunity to enhance the physical abilities of severely and multiply disabled people thus allowing them to work in industrial workplaces on the primary labour market. In order to assist this target group...
The spread of cobotsin common industrial practice has led constructors to prefer the development of collaborative features that are necessary to prevent injuries to operators over the realization of simple kinematic structures for which the joints-to...
In recent years, new programming techniques have been developed in the human-robot collaboration (HRC) field. For example, walk-through programming allows to program the robot in an easy and intuitive way. In this context, a modification of a portion...
Collaborative robots are an indispensable element of both industry 4.0 and industry 5.0, the latter of which gives special emphasis to the human facet of the human-robot collaboration. To facilitate such an interaction, attention should be given to t...
This study examines the practicality and limitations of using a FANUC CRX-10 iA/l collaborative robot to assemble a product component, highlighting the trade-offs between increased robotization and reduced manual intervention. Through a detailed case...
Industry 5.0 places humans at the center of production systems, requiring technologies that integrate operators as active components while adapting dynamically to their physical and cognitive needs. Within this context, facilitating the learning of c...
Due to an increasing number of robots in the working world, the interaction between humans and robots will become more and more frequent. Hence, the research field of human–robot collaboration is becoming progressively relevant and should there...
An important issue in medical robotics is communication between physicians and robots. Speech-based communication is of particular advantage in robot-assisted surgery. It frees the surgeon’s hands; hence, he can focus on the principal tasks. Ma...
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The growing use of robots in nursing and healthcare facilities has prompted increasing research on human–robot interactions. However, specific research designs that can guide researchers to conduct rigorous investigations on human–robot interactions...
The use of collaborative robots (or cobots) in rehabilitation therapies is aimed at assisting and shortening the patient’s recovery after neurological injuries. Cobots are inherently safe when interacting with humans and can be programmed in di...
Despite its potential for STEM education, educational robotics remains out of reach for many classrooms due to upfront purchase costs, maintenance requirements, storage space, and numerous other barriers to entry. As demonstrated previously, these ph...
Mechatronics and robotics appeared particularly effective in students’ education, allowing them to create non-traditional solutions in STEM disciplines, which have a direct impact and interaction with the world surrounding them. This paper presents t...
A big challenge in human–robot interaction (HRI) is the design of autonomous robots that collaborate effectively with humans, exposing behaviors similar to those exhibited by humans when they interact with each other. Indeed, robots are part of...
Industrial Robots (IRs) are typically employed as flexible machines to perform many types of repetitive and intensive tasks within fenced safe areas, ensuring high productivity and cost efficiency. However, their rigid programming approaches often po...
In Industry 4.0., robots are regarded as one of the key components. In recent years, collaborative robots (cobots) have risen in relevance and have been included in the industry to perform tasks alongside humans. Robots have been used in many applica...
This work proposes an Augmented Reality (AR) application designed for HoloLens 2 which allows human operators, without particular experience or knowledge of robotics, to easily interact with collaborative robots. Building on the application presented...
This study provides a structured literature review of the recent COllaborative roBOT (COBOT) applications in industrial and service contexts. Several papers and research studies were selected and analyzed, observing the collaborative robot interactio...
Education is an indispensable tool for improving social sustainability. In the school context, a wide variety of methodologies are being considered to achieve this goal by promoting cultural and experiential sustainability through educational and tec...
Aeronautical robotic applications use quite large, heavy robots with huge end effectors that are frequently multifunctional. An assembly jig to hold a fuselage panel and two medium-sized six-axis robots fixed on linear axes, referred to as the intern...
In this analysis, we present results from measurements performed to determine the stability of a hand tracking system and the accuracy of the detected palm and finger’s position. Measurements were performed for the evaluation of the sensor for...
Drilling in aerospace one-up assembly demands high positional accuracy, strong clamping forces, and precise angular compensation to ensure quality in multi-layered stacks. Existing robotic solutions achieve these requirements but are costly, bulky, a...
Human–robot collaborative assembly line balancing and scheduling constitutes an NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem involving the simultaneous optimization of task assignment, resource allocation, processing mode selection, station-level...
Collaborative robots face barriers to widespread adoption due to the complexity of programming them to achieve human-like movement. Learning from demonstration (LfD) has emerged as a crucial solution, allowing robots to learn tasks directly from expe...
Manual disassembly of the lithium-ion battery (LIB) modules of electric vehicles (EVs) for recycling is time-consuming, expensive, and dangerous for technicians or workers. Dangers associated with high voltage and thermal runaway make a robotic syste...
This study examines the effects of integrating an inquiry-based final project into an early childhood robotics program, focusing on its influence on children’s problem-solving self-efficacy, attitudes toward collaboration, confidence in applyin...
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