Human - Industrial Robot Collaboration: Application of simulation software for workstation optimisation
2016 (English)In: Procedia CIRP, ISSN 2212-8271, E-ISSN 2212-8271, Vol. 44, p. 181-186Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Resource type
Text
Abstract [en]
The simulation possibilities of Human Industrial Robot Collaboration (HIRC) are limited in commercial software and published research. In order to meet this a demonstrator software has been developed. This paper presents the combination of the quantitative output from the software (measuring operation time and biomechanical load) together with existing optimisation techniques used to design the optimal HIRC workstation. An industrial case is used as an example where the optimal geometric handover position between robot and human is found. From the simulation software metamodels were created in order to represent the investigated workstation. The model was used in a multi-objective optimisation problem and resulted in a trade-off chart between operation time and biomechanical load. The result shows one example of the possibilities to combine the quantitative results from the simulation with optimisation in order to get the best solution to a HIRC design problem. (C) 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Elsevier, 2016. Vol. 44, p. 181-186
Keywords [en]
Human robot collaboration, HRC, Work station design, Assembly, Man machine, Workstation optimisation, Handover position
National Category
Production Engineering, Human Work Science and Ergonomics
Research subject
User Centred Product Design
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:his:diva-12570DOI: 10.1016/j.procir.2016.02.002ISI: 000376432200030Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84994071229OAI: oai:DiVA.org:his-12570DiVA, id: diva2:941614
Conference
6th CIRP Conference on Assembly Technologies and Systems (CATS), Gothenburg, May 16-18, 2016
Funder
Knowledge FoundationMälardalen UniversityVinnova
Note
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Edited by Rikard Söderberg
The research work was funded by the Swedish Knowledge Foundation (for the INNOFACTURE Research School), Scania, and Mälardalen University. The research is also supported by the research project HIRC (Virtual Verification of Human Robot Collaboration), funded by the Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems (VINNOVA). The research was conducted in the context of the XPRES research and education environment at Mälardalen University.
2016-06-222016-06-222022-07-15Bibliographically approved