5 DOF Industrial Robot Arm for Safe Human-Robot Collaboration

2015 ◽  
pp. 121-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seung-Woo Song ◽  
Sang-Duck Lee ◽  
Jae-Bok Song
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Robot ◽  
Robot Arm ◽  
Human Robot Collaboration

scholarly journals Do Speed and Proximity Affect Human-Robot Collaboration with an Industrial Robot Arm?

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Story ◽  
Phil Webb ◽  
Sarah R. Fletcher ◽  
Gilbert Tang ◽  
Cyril Jaksic ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Significant Interaction ◽  
Industrial Robot ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Industrial Robots ◽  
Robot Arm ◽  
High Productivity ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Further Development ◽  
Current Guidelines ◽  
Human Robot Collaboration

AbstractCurrent guidelines for Human-Robot Collaboration (HRC) allow a person to be within the working area of an industrial robot arm whilst maintaining their physical safety. However, research into increasing automation and social robotics have shown that attributes in the robot, such as speed and proximity setting, can influence a person’s workload and trust. Despite this, studies into how an industrial robot arm’s attributes affect a person during HRC are limited and require further development. Therefore, a study was proposed to assess the impact of robot’s speed and proximity setting on a person’s workload and trust during an HRC task. Eighty-three participants from Cranfield University and the ASK Centre, BAE Systems Samlesbury, completed a task in collaboration with a UR5 industrial robot arm running at different speeds and proximity settings, workload and trust were measured after each run. Workload was found to be positively related to speed but not significantly related to proximity setting. Significant interaction was not found for trust with speed or proximity setting. This study showed that even when operating within current safety guidelines, an industrial robot can affect a person’s workload. The lack of significant interaction with trust was attributed to the robot’s relatively small size and high success rate, and therefore may have an influence in larger industrial robots. As workload and trust can have a significant impact on a person’s performance and satisfaction, it is key to understand this relationship early in the development and design of collaborative work cells to ensure safe and high productivity.

scholarly journals Compliant Human–Robot Collaboration with Accurate Path-Tracking Ability for a Robot Manipulator

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (13) ◽  
pp. 5914
Author(s):  
Daniel Reyes-Uquillas ◽  
Tesheng Hsiao
Keyword(s):  
Sliding Mode ◽  
Robot Manipulator ◽  
Industrial Robot ◽  
Path Following ◽  
Path Tracking ◽  
Control Loop ◽  
Loop Control ◽  
Tracking Ability ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Human Robot Collaboration

In this article, we aim to achieve manual guidance of a robot manipulator to perform tasks that require strict path following and would benefit from collaboration with a human to guide the motion. The robot can be used as a tool to increase the accuracy of a human operator while remaining compliant with the human instructions. We propose a dual-loop control structure where the outer admittance control loop allows the robot to be compliant along a path considering the projection of the external force to the tangential-normal-binormal (TNB) frame associated with the path. The inner motion control loop is designed based on a modified sliding mode control (SMC) law. We evaluate the system behavior to forces applied from different directions to the end-effector of a 6-DOF industrial robot in a linear motion test. Next, a second test using a 3D path as a tracking task is conducted, where we specify three interaction types: free motion (FM), force-applied motion (FAM), and combined motion with virtual forces (CVF). Results show that the difference of root mean square error (RMSE) among the cases is less than 0.1 mm, which proves the feasibility of applying this method for various path-tracking applications in compliant human–robot collaboration.

Development and Testing of a Telemanipulation System With Arm and Hand Motion

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael L. Turner ◽  
Ryan P. Findley ◽  
Weston B. Griffin ◽  
Mark R. Cutkosky ◽  
Daniel H. Gomez
Keyword(s):  
Force Feedback ◽  
Haptic Feedback ◽  
Industrial Robot ◽  
Robot Hand ◽  
Robot Arm ◽  
Task Execution ◽  
Hand Motion ◽  
Instrumented Glove ◽  
Simple Manipulation ◽  
Dexterous Robot Hand

Abstract This paper describes the development of a system for dexterous telemanipulation and presents the results of tests involving simple manipulation tasks. The user wears an instrumented glove augmented with an arm-grounded haptic feedback apparatus. A linkage attached to the user’s wrist measures gross motions of the arm. The movements of the user are transferred to a two fingered dexterous robot hand mounted on the end of a 4-DOF industrial robot arm. Forces measured at the robot fingers can be transmitted back to the user via the haptic feedback apparatus. The results obtained in block-stacking and object-rolling experiments indicate that the addition of force feedback to the user did not improve the speed of task execution. In fact, in some cases the presence of incomplete force information is detrimental to performance speed compared to no force information. There are indications that the presence of force feedback did aid in task learning.

scholarly journals Bilaterally Shared Haptic Perception for Human-Robot Collaboration in Grasping Operation

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (5) ◽  
pp. 1104-1116
Author(s):  
Yoshihiro Tanaka ◽  
Shogo Shiraki ◽  
Kazuki Katayama ◽  
Kouta Minamizawa ◽  
Domenico Prattichizzo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Haptic Perception ◽  
Tactile Feedback ◽  
Tactile Display ◽  
Just Noticeable Difference ◽  
Robot Arm ◽  
Collaborative Task ◽  
Grasping Force ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Tactile Sensations ◽  
Human Robot Collaboration

Tactile sensations are crucial for achieving precise operations. A haptic connection between a human operator and a robot has the potential to promote smooth human-robot collaboration (HRC). In this study, we assemble a bilaterally shared haptic system for grasping operations, such as both hands of humans using a bottle cap-opening task. A robot arm controls the grasping force according to the tactile information from the human that opens the cap with a finger-attached acceleration sensor. Then, the grasping force of the robot arm is fed back to the human using a wearable squeezing display. Three experiments are conducted: measurement of the just noticeable difference in the tactile display, a collaborative task with different bottles under two conditions, with and without tactile feedback, including psychological evaluations using a questionnaire, and a collaborative task under an explicit strategy. The results obtained showed that the tactile feedback provided the confidence that the cooperative robot was adjusting its action and improved the stability of the task with the explicit strategy. The results indicate the effectiveness of the tactile feedback and the requirement for an explicit strategy of operators, providing insight into the design of an HRC with bilaterally shared haptic perception.

A case study in human–robot collaboration in the disassembly of press-fitted components

2019 ◽  
Vol 234 (3) ◽  
pp. 654-664 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Huang ◽  
Duc Truong Pham ◽  
Yongjing Wang ◽  
Mo Qu ◽  
Chunqian Ji ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
End Of Life ◽  
Industrial Robot ◽  
New Method ◽  
Water Pump ◽  
Compliance Control ◽  
Critical Step ◽  
Active Compliance ◽  
Human Robot Collaboration ◽  
Collaborative Robot

Human–robot collaborative disassembly is an approach designed to mitigate the effects of uncertainties associated with the condition of end-of-life products returned for remanufacturing. This flexible semi-autonomous approach can also handle unpredictability in the frequency and numbers of such returns as well as variance in the remanufacturing process. This article focusses on disassembly, which is the first and arguably the most critical step in remanufacturing. The article presents a new method for disassembling press-fitted components using human–robot collaboration based on the active compliance provided by a collaborative robot. The article first introduces the concepts of human–robot collaborative disassembly and outlines the method of active compliance control. It then details a case study designed to demonstrate the proposed method. The study involved the disassembly of an automotive water pump by a collaborative industrial robot working with a human operator to take apart components that had been press-fitted together. The results show the feasibility of the proposed method.

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