Machines (Oct 2022)

Tools and Methods for Human Robot Collaboration: Case Studies at i-LABS

  • Massimo Callegari,
  • Luca Carbonari,
  • Daniele Costa,
  • Giacomo Palmieri,
  • Matteo-Claudio Palpacelli,
  • Alessandra Papetti,
  • Cecilia Scoccia

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/machines10110997
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 11
p. 997

Abstract

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The collaboration among humans and machines is one of the most relevant topics in the Industry 4.0 paradigm. Collaborative robotics owes part of the enormous impact it has had in small and medium size enterprises to its innate vocation for close cooperation between human operators and robots. The i-Labs laboratory, which is introduced in this paper, developed some case studies in this sense involving different technologies at different abstraction levels to analyse the feasibility of human-robot interaction in common, yet challenging, application scenarios. The ergonomics of the processes, safety of operators, as well as effectiveness of the cooperation are some of the aspects under investigation with the main objective of drawing to these issues the attention from industries who could benefit from them.

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