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Since ∼400 BC, when man first replicated flying behavior with kites, up until the turn of the 20th century, when the Wright brothers performed the first successful powered human flight, flight functions have become available to man via significant support from man-made structures and devices. Over the past 100 years or so, technology has enabled several flight functions to migrate to automation and/or...
This paper examines the collaborative underpinning of sustainability and suggests the adoption of collaboration as a basis for developing a Sustainable Lens. A framing reference of sustainable practice is used to provide direction to a consideration of the relationship between sustainability and collaboration. This is then used to prompt a discussion of research implications.
The purpose of this work is to develop information support for human-robot collaboration in cellular manufacturing based on human-centered approach to improve the human adaptability of the support system. In this paper, six main developments are presented to illustrate the human-centered approach. Before the human-robot collaboration system can be developed, a human-human collaboration experiment...
The development in this work is to evaluate analytically human-robot system for collaboration based on performance requirements in cellular manufacturing system. This work continues from a previous task modeling study to further evaluate quantitatively the collaboration planning of the human-robot system. The analysis study is based on Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) approach. Four criteria (productivity,...
This work presents a new approach to shared control to assist wheelchair driving. Rather than swapping control from human to robot either by request or on a need basis, the system estimates how much help is needed in a reactive fashion and continuously produces an emergent motory command in combination with human input. To provide time stability and integration, instant commands are modulated by a...
Robots do not have any capability of taking moral responsibility. At the same time industrial robotics is entering a new era with ??intelligent?? robots sharing workbench with humans. Teams consisting of humans and industrial robots are no longer science fiction. The biggest worry in this scenario is the fear of humans losing control and robots running amok. We believe that the current way of implementing...
The challenge of this work is to study the design and development of human-robot collaboration (HRC) in cellular manufacturing. Based on the concept of human collaborative design, four main design factors are being identified and developed in an active HRC prototype production cell for cable harness assembly. Human collaborative design aims to optimize the system design for the advantage of collaboration...
Direct physical human-robot interaction has become a central part in the research field of robotics today. To use the advantages of the potential for humans and robots to work together as a team in industrial settings, the most important issues are safety for the human and an easy way to describe tasks for the robot. In this work, we present an approach of a hierarchical structured control of industrial...
This paper proposes a multi-level collaborative driving framework (MCDF) for human-autonomous vehicle interaction. There are three components in MCDF; the mission-behavior-motion block diagram, the functionality-module relationship and the human participation level table. Through integration of the three components, a human driver can cooperate with the vehicle's intelligence to achieve better driving...
The key challenge of this work is to research the safety design and development of a close range active human-robot collaboration system in which no governing safety standards and regulations are currently present. Active robot assistance in a human-centered cellular manufacturing system is very promising proposal, however safety is the uppermost consideration before this idea can be materialized...
This work presents a new approach to shared control driving a robotic wheelchair for persons with disabilities. The proposal is based on weighting the robot and human commands by their respective efficiencies to obtain an emergent command in a reactive way. It was tested with a robotized Meyra wheelchair at Fondazione Santa Lucia (FSL) in Rome with volunteers presenting different disabilities and...
This paper addresses a new collaborative control method for robotic wheelchairs. The original method was specifically designed for disabled people who are unable to drive a robotic wheelchair on their own. Its main novelty was that the wheelchair just provided the amount of help needed at each moment, to avoid loss of residual abilities. This wheelchair was tested by volunteering in-patients in Casa...
The objective of this work is to enhance man-machine collaboration in cell production by task modeling approach. Task modeling provides a method to define and study the collaboration between man and machine. Six requirements have been derived as basis of development. In this work, the task modeling has extended classical HTA method to represent collaborative operation in a hierarchical structure with...
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