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Human-Robot Collaboration Demonstrator Combining Speech Recognition and Haptic Control
University of Skövde, School of Engineering Science. University of Skövde, The Virtual Systems Research Centre. (Produktion och automatiseringsteknik, Production and Automation Engineering)ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8874-0676
University of Skövde, School of Engineering Science. University of Skövde, The Virtual Systems Research Centre. (Produktion och automatiseringsteknik, Production and Automation Engineering)ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3973-3394
Volvo Car Corporation, Skövde, Sweden.
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8679-8049
2017 (English)In: Procedia CIRP, E-ISSN 2212-8271, Vol. 63, p. 396-401Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

In recent years human-robot collaboration has been an important topic in manufacturing industries. By introducing robots into the same working cell as humans, the advantages of both humans and robots can be utilized. A robot can handle heavy lifting, repetitive and high accuracy tasks while a human can handle tasks that require the flexibility of humans. If a worker is to collaborate with a robot it is important to have an intuitive way of communicating with the robot. Currently, the way of interacting with a robot is through a teaching pendant, where the robot is controlled using buttons or a joystick. However, speech and touch are two communication methods natural to humans, where speech recognition and haptic control technologies can be used to interpret these communication methods. These technologies have been heavily researched in several research areas, including human-robot interaction. However, research of combining these two technologies to achieve a more natural communication in industrial human-robot collaboration is limited. A demonstrator has thus been developed which includes both speech recognition and haptic control technologies to control a collaborative robot from Universal Robots. This demonstrator will function as an experimental platform to further research on how the speech recognition and haptic control can be used in human-robot collaboration. The demonstrator has proven that the two technologies can be integrated with a collaborative industrial robot, where the human and the robot collaborate to assemble a simple car model. The demonstrator has been used in public appearances and a pilot study, which have contributed in further improvements of the demonstrator. Further research will focus on making the communication more intuitive for the human and the demonstrator will be used as the platform for continued research.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Elsevier, 2017. Vol. 63, p. 396-401
Keywords [en]
Human-robot collaboration, Speech recognition, Haptic control
National Category
Robotics
Research subject
Production and Automation Engineering; INF201 Virtual Production Development
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:his:diva-13986DOI: 10.1016/j.procir.2017.03.126ISI: 000418465500067Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85028657899OAI: oai:DiVA.org:his-13986DiVA, id: diva2:1131315
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The 50th CIRP Conference on Manufacturing Systems, Taichung City, Taiwan on May 3rd – 5th, 2017
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Edited by Mitchell M. Tseng, Hung-Yin Tsai, Yue Wang

Available from: 2017-08-14 Created: 2017-08-14 Last updated: 2024-09-04Bibliographically approved
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1. Virtual Reality Platform for Design and Evaluation of the Interaction in Human-Robot Collaborative Tasks in Assembly Manufacturing
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Virtual Reality Platform for Design and Evaluation of the Interaction in Human-Robot Collaborative Tasks in Assembly Manufacturing
2020 (English)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

Industry is on the threshold of the fourth industrial revolution where smart factories area necessity to meet customer demands for increasing volumes of individualized products. Within the smart factory, cyber-physical production systems are becoming important to deal with changing production. Human-robot collaboration is an example of a cyber-physical system in which humans and robots share a workspace. By introducing robots and humans into the same working cell, the two can collaborate by allowing the robot to deal with heavy lifting, repetitive, and high accuracy tasks, while the human focuses on tasks that need intelligence, flexibility, and adaptability. There are few such collaborative applications in industry today. In the implementations that actually exist, the robots are mainly working side-by-side with humans rather than truly collaborating. Three main factors that limit the widespread application of human-robot collaboration can be identified: lack of knowledge regarding suitable human-robot collaboration tasks, lack of knowledge regarding efficient communication technologies for enabling interaction between humans and robots when carrying out tasks, and lack of efficient ways to safely analyze and evaluate collaborative tasks.

The overall aim of this thesis is to address these problems and facilitate and improve interaction between humans and robots, with a special focus on assembly manufacturing tasks. To fulfill this aim, an assembly workstation for human-robot collaboration has been developed and implemented both physically and virtually. A virtual reality platform called ViCoR has been developed that can be used to investigate, evaluate, and analyze the interaction between humans and robots and thereby facilitate the implementation of new human-robot collaboration cells. The workstation developed has also been used for data collection and experiments during the thesis work, and used to extract knowledge of how the interaction between human and robot can be improved.

Abstract [sv]

Industrin är på väg in i den fjärde industriella revolutionen, där smarta fabriker är nödvändigt för att möta kundernas krav på ökande volymer av individualiserade produkter. Inom den smarta fabriken blir cyberfysiska produktionssystem viktigt för att hantera den varierande produktionen. Människa-robot samarbete är ett exempel på ett cyberfysiskt produktionssystem där människor och robotar delar arbetsyta. Genom att införa robotar och människor i samma arbetscell kan de samarbeta där roboten kan hanterauppgifter som kräver tunga lyft, repetitiva rörelser och hög precision medan människan kan fokusera på uppgifter som kräver intelligens, flexibilitet och anpassningsförmåga. I dagens industri är sådana samarbetsapplikationer få och I de implementationer som finns så arbetar robotarna mestadels i närheten av en människa istället för att faktiskt samarbeta. Tre huvudfaktorer har identifierats som har begränsat antal tillämpningar av människa-robot samarbete: brist på kunskap om lämpliga människa-robot samarbetsuppgifter, brist på kunskap om kommunikationstekniker som möjliggör interaktion mellan människor och robotar samt brist på effektiva och säkra sätt att analysera och utvärdera samarbetsuppgifter.

Det övergripande syftet med denna avhandling är att adressera dessa problem samt att underlätta och förbättra interaktionen mellan människor och robotar, med ett särskilt fokus på monteringsuppgifter. För att uppfylla detta mål har en arbetsstation för samarbete mellan människa och robot utvecklats och implementerats både fysiskt och virtuellt. En virtuell verklighetsplattform som heter ViCoR har utvecklats som kan användas för att undersöka, utvärdera och analysera interaktionen mellan människor och robotar och därigenom underlätta arbetet att implementera nya samarbetsceller. Den utvecklade arbetsstationen har också använts för datainsamling och experiment under avhandlingen och använts för att utvinna kunskap om hur samverkan mellan människa och robot kan förbättras.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Skövde: University of Skövde, 2020. p. 153
Series
Dissertation Series ; 34
National Category
Production Engineering, Human Work Science and Ergonomics Robotics Human Computer Interaction
Research subject
Production and Automation Engineering
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:his:diva-18919 (URN)978-91-984918-6-9 (ISBN)
Public defence
2020-09-08, ASSAR Industrial Innovation Arena, Skövde, 08:30
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Supervisors
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Ett av fem delarbeten (övriga se rubriken Delarbeten/List of papers): PAPER 5 Patrik Gustavsson, Magnus Holm, and Anna Syberfeldt (2020a). “Evaluation of Human-Robot Interaction for Assembly Manufacturing in Virtual Reality”. In: Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing (Submitted)

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