Assessment of operator stress induced by robot collaboration in assembly

To improve productivity of assembly in cell production, a robot is introduced to help operators physically. A moving robot around a human operator however induces much stress on human operators because they need to work coexistently and compellingly with the robot. This paper deals with the strain m...

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Published in:CIRP annals 2010, Vol.59 (1), p.5-8
Main Authors: Arai, T., Kato, R., Fujita, M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Assembly
Biological and medical sciences
Biotechnology
Eukaryotic cell cultures
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Human–robot collaboration
Methods. Procedures. Technologies
Robot
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Summary:To improve productivity of assembly in cell production, a robot is introduced to help operators physically. A moving robot around a human operator however induces much stress on human operators because they need to work coexistently and compellingly with the robot. This paper deals with the strain measurement caused by industrial robots, and the discuss design criterions of robot collaboration with a human operator. Several basic strains are experimentally measured: distance from a swinging robot to an operator, speed at robot's movement towards an operator and so on. The results are applied in a novel cell production assembly system.
ISSN:0007-8506
DOI:10.1016/j.cirp.2010.03.043