research-article

How to transfer information between collaborating human operators and industrial robots in an assembly

Authors:

Svante Augustsson,

Linn Gustavsson Christiernin,

Gunnar BolmsjöAuthors Info & Claims

NordiCHI '14: Proceedings of the 8th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Fun, Fast, Foundational

Pages 286 - 294

https://doi.org/10.1145/2639189.2639243

Published: 26 October 2014 Publication History

Abstract

Flexible human-robot industrial coproduction will be important in many small and middle-sized companies in the future. One of the major challenges in a flexible robot cell is how to transfer information between the human and the robot with help of existing and safety approved equipment. In this paper a case study will be presented where the first half focus on data transfer to the robot communicating the human's position and movements forcing the robot to respond to the triggers. The second half focuses on how to visualize information about the settings and assembly order to the human. The outcome was successful and flexible, efficient coproduction could be achieved but also a number of new challenges were found.

References

[1]

ABB, IRB 6640 {Electronic} http://www.abb.com/product/seitp327/26e3882ff473f5b2c125736a002f451a.aspx

[2]

Akan, B., Çürüklü, B., and Asplund, L., Interacting with Industrial Robots through a Multi-modal language and sensor system, In Proc. of the 39th International Symposium on Robotics (ISR '08), Seoul, South Korea (2008), 66--69.

[3]

Augustsson, S., Christiernin, L. G., and Bolmsjö, G., Human and Robot Interaction based on Safety Zones in a Shared Work Environment, In Proc. of the 9th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI'14), Bielefeld, Germany, (2014).

Digital Library

[4]

Bonilla, I., Mendoza, M., González-Galván, E. J., Chávez-Olivares, C., Loredo-Flores, A., and Reyes, F., Path-Tracking Maneuvers With Industrial Robot Manipulators Using Uncalibrated Vision and Impedance Control. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics-Part C, 42, 6, (2012), 1716--1729.

Digital Library

[5]

Bortot, D., Born, M., and Bengler, K., nDirectly or on Detours? How Should Industrial Robots Approximate Humans? In Proc IEEE international conference on Human Robot interaction (HRI'13), Tokyo, Japan, (2013), 89--90.

Digital Library

[6]

Cerlinca, T., and Vlad, V., A Human Robot Interaction-based Approach to Automation in Industrial Manufacturing. In Proc. International Conference and Exposition on Electrical and Power Engineering (EPE'12), Iasi, Romania, (2012), 29--34.

[7]

Ende, T., Haddadin, S., Parusel, S. Wüsthoff, T., Hassenzahl, M., and Albu-Schäffer, A., A Human-Centered Approach to Robot Gesture Based Communication within Collaborative Working Processes. In Proc. of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'11), San Francisco, CA, USA, (2011) 3367--3374.

[8]

Fryman, J., and Matthias, B., Safety of Industrial Robots: From Conventional to Collaborative Applications, In Proc. of the 7th German Conference on Robotics (ROBOTIK), Munich, Germany, (2012), 1--5.

[9]

Geravand, M., Flacco, F., De Luca, A., Human-Robot Physical Interaction and Collaboration using an Industrial Robot with a Closed Control Architecture, In Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA '13), Karlsruhe, Germany, (2013), 4000--4007.

[10]

Gnjatović, M., Tasevski, J., Nikolić, M., Mišković, D., Borovac, B. and Delić, V., Adaptive Multimodal Interaction with Industrial Robot, In Proc. IEEE 10th Jubilee International Symposium on Intelligent Systems and Informatics (SISY'12), Subotica, Serbia, (2012), 329--333.

[11]

Heyer, C., Human-Robot Interaction and Future Industrial Robotics Applications, In Proc. of IEEE/RSJ International Conferense on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Taipei, Taiwan, (2010), 4749--4754.

[12]

KUKA Robotics, High Payloads (90 kg to 300 kg) {Electronic} http://www.kuka-robotics.com/en/

[13]

Matthias, B., Kock, S., Jerregard, H., Kallman, M., Lundberg, I., and Mellander, R., Safety of collaborative industrial robots: Certification possibilities for a collaborative assembly robot concept, In Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Assembly and Manufacturing (ISAM'11), Tampere, Finland, (2011), 1--6.

[14]

Matthias, B., Oberer-Treitz, S., Staab, H., Schuller, E., and Peldschus, S., Injury Risk Quantification for Industrial Robots in Collaborative Operation with Humans, In Proc. of the 41st International Symposium on Robotics (ISR), and the 6th German Conference on Robotics (ROBOTIK) Munich, Germany, (2010), 1--6.

[15]

Oberer, S., and Schraft R. D., Robot-Dummy Crash Tests for Robot Safety Assessment, In Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Rome, Italy, (2007), 2934--2939.

[16]

Il Park, D. Park, C., and Kyung, J. H., Signal processing of direct teaching data for human-robot cooperation, In Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE'10), Bari, Italy (2010), 1956--1960.

[17]

Piltz International, Safe camera system SafetyEYE, {Electronic} https://www.pilz.com

[18]

Povse, B., Koritnik, D., Bajd, T., and Munih, M., Correlation between impact-energy density and pain intensity during robot-man collision, In Proc. of the 3rd IEEE RAS & EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, Tokyo, Japan, (2010), 179--183.

[19]

Radi, M., and Reinhart, G., Industrial Haptic Robot Guidance System for Assembly Processes, In Proc. of IEEE International Workshop on Audio visual Environments and Games, (HAVE'09). Lecco, Italy (2009), 69--74.

[20]

Shneiderman B. and Plaisant C., (1998) Designing the User Interface-Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction. 4th ed. Addison Wesley Longman, Inc. USA.

Digital Library

[21]

Zhang, G., Wang, J. and Ge, J., Robotic Path Learning with Graphical User Interface, In Proc. of the 44th International Symposium on Robotics (ISR'13), Seoul, Korea, (2013), 1--4.

Cited By

Gaffinet BAli JPanetto HNaudet Y(2023)Human-Centric Digital Twins: Advancing Safety and Ergonomics in Human-Robot CollaborationInnovative Intelligent Industrial Production and Logistics10.1007/978-3-031-49339-3_24(380-397)Online publication date: 23-Dec-2023
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-49339-3_24
Haninger K(2021)Robot Inference of Human States: Performance and Transparency in Physical CollaborationThe 21st Century Industrial Robot: When Tools Become Collaborators10.1007/978-3-030-78513-0_4(55-69)Online publication date: 26-Oct-2021
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78513-0_4
Hentout AAouache MMaoudj AAkli I(2019)Human–robot interaction in industrial collaborative robotics: a literature review of the decade 2008–2017Advanced Robotics10.1080/01691864.2019.163671433:15-16(764-799)Online publication date: 4-Jul-2019
https://doi.org/10.1080/01691864.2019.1636714
Show More Cited By

Index Terms

How to transfer information between collaborating human operators and industrial robots in an assembly
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)

Recommendations

Humanoid Robot Instructors for Industrial Assembly Tasks
HAI '17: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Human Agent Interaction

We are interested in the interactive aspects of deploying humanoid robots as instructors for industrial assembly tasks. Training for industrial assembly requires workers to become familiar with all steps of the assembly process, including learning and ...
Safe Close-Proximity and Physical Human-Robot Interaction Using Industrial Robots
CRV '15: Proceedings of the 2015 12th Conference on Computer and Robot Vision

Industrial robots have been employed worldwide in the manufacturing sector for performing tasks quickly, repeatedly and accurately in relatively static environments for over 30 years. In recent years, close physical interaction between industrial robots ...
Assisted Human-Robot-Interaction for Industrial Assembly: Video to Assisted Human-Robot-Interaction for Industrial Assembly
HRI '21 Companion: Companion of the 2021 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

Human-robot collaboration is increasingly applied to industrial assembly sequences due to the growing need for flexibility in manufacturing. Assistant systems are able help to support shared assembly sequences to facilitate collaboration. This ...

Comments

Please enable JavaScript to view thecomments powered by Disqus.

Information & Contributors

Information

Published In

cover image ACM Other conferences

NordiCHI '14: Proceedings of the 8th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Fun, Fast, Foundational

October 2014

361 pages

ISBN:9781450325424

DOI:10.1145/2639189

General Chairs:
Virpi Roto,
Jonna Häkkilä,
Program Chairs:
Kaisa Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila,
Oskar Juhlin,
Publications Chairs:
Thomas Olsson,
Ebba Hvannberg

Copyright © 2014 ACM.

Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than ACM must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from [email protected]

In-Cooperation

SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

Publication History

Published: 26 October 2014

Permissions

Request permissions for this article.

Request Permissions

Check for updates

Author Tags

Qualifiers

Research-article

Conference

NordiCHI '14

NordiCHI '14: The 8th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction

October 26 - 30, 2014

Helsinki, Finland

Acceptance Rates

NordiCHI '14 Paper Acceptance Rate 89 of 361 submissions, 25%;

Overall Acceptance Rate 379 of 1,572 submissions, 24%

Contributors

Other Metrics

View Article Metrics

Bibliometrics & Citations

Bibliometrics

Article Metrics

9
Total Citations
View Citations
262
Total Downloads

Downloads (Last 12 months)7
Downloads (Last 6 weeks)1

Reflects downloads up to 14 Dec 2024

Other Metrics

View Author Metrics

Citations

Cited By

Gaffinet BAli JPanetto HNaudet Y(2023)Human-Centric Digital Twins: Advancing Safety and Ergonomics in Human-Robot CollaborationInnovative Intelligent Industrial Production and Logistics10.1007/978-3-031-49339-3_24(380-397)Online publication date: 23-Dec-2023
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-49339-3_24
Haninger K(2021)Robot Inference of Human States: Performance and Transparency in Physical CollaborationThe 21st Century Industrial Robot: When Tools Become Collaborators10.1007/978-3-030-78513-0_4(55-69)Online publication date: 26-Oct-2021
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78513-0_4
Hentout AAouache MMaoudj AAkli I(2019)Human–robot interaction in industrial collaborative robotics: a literature review of the decade 2008–2017Advanced Robotics10.1080/01691864.2019.163671433:15-16(764-799)Online publication date: 4-Jul-2019
https://doi.org/10.1080/01691864.2019.1636714
Ren TDong YWu DChen K(2019)Design of Direct Teaching Behavior of Collaborative Robot Based on Force InteractionJournal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems10.1007/s10846-019-00986-396:1(83-93)Online publication date: 1-Oct-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s10846-019-00986-3
Hellström TBensch S(2018)Understandable robots - What, Why, and HowPaladyn, Journal of Behavioral Robotics10.1515/pjbr-2018-00099:1(110-123)Online publication date: 11-Jul-2018
https://doi.org/10.1515/pjbr-2018-0009
Kwon MHuang SDragan AKanda TŜabanović SHoffman GTapus A(2018)Expressing Robot IncapabilityProceedings of the 2018 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction10.1145/3171221.3171276(87-95)Online publication date: 26-Feb-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3171221.3171276
Bayram Bİnce GUstundag ACevikcan E(2017)Advances in Robotics in the Era of Industry 4.0Industry 4.0: Managing The Digital Transformation10.1007/978-3-319-57870-5_11(187-200)Online publication date: 16-Sep-2017
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57870-5_11
Seo SGu JJeong SGriffin KYoung JBunt APrentice SLee MOmori TOsawa HPark HYoung J(2015)Women and Men Collaborating with Robots on Assembly LinesProceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction10.1145/2814940.2814948(3-9)Online publication date: 21-Oct-2015
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2814940.2814948
Meneweger TWurhofer DFuchsberger VTscheligi M(undefined)Working together with industrial robots: Experiencing robots in a production environment2015 24th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)10.1109/ROMAN.2015.7333641(833-838)
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/ROMAN.2015.7333641

View Options

Login options

Check if you have access through your login credentials or your institution to get full access on this article.

Full Access

Get this Publication

View options

PDF

View or Download as a PDF file.

eReader

View online with eReader.

Media

Figures

Other

Tables

View Table of Contents