3 accepted papers
Work-related musculoskeletal disorders (MSD) are one of the major cause of injuries and absenteeism at work. These lead to important cost in the manufacturing industry. Human-robot collaboration can help decreasing this issue by appropriately distributing the tasks and decreasing the workload of the…
Even though cobots have high potential in bringing several benefits in the manufacturing and logistic processes, their rapid (re-)deployment in changing environments is still limited. To enable fast adaptation to new product demands and to boost the fitness of the human workers to the allocated task…
In this work, we propose a novel visuo-haptic guidance interface to enable mobile collaborative robots to follow human instructions in a way understandable by non-experts. The interface is composed of a haptic admittance module and a human visual tracking module. The haptic guidance enables an indiv…