Proactive Human–Robot Collaboration Toward Human-Centric Smart Manufacturing is driven by an appreciation of manufacturing scenarios where human and robotic agents can understand each other’s actions and conduct mutual-cognitive, predictable, and self-organizing teamwork. Modern factories’ smart manufacturing transformation and the evolution of relationships between humans and robots in manufacturing tasks set the scene for a discussion on the technical fundamentals of state-of-the-art proactive human–robot collaboration; these are further elaborated into the three main steps (i.e., mutual-cognitive and empathic coworking; predictable spatio-temporal collaboration; self-organizing multiagent teamwork) to achieve an advanced form of symbiotic HRC with high-level, dynamic-reasoning teamwork skills. The authors then present a deployment roadmap and several case studies, providing step-by-step guidance for real-world application of these ground-breaking methods which crucially contribute to the maturing of human-centric, sustainable, and resilient production systems. The volume proves to be an invaluable resource that supports understanding and learning for users ranging from upper undergraduate/graduate students and academic researchers to engineering professionals in a variety of industry contexts.
1. Chapter 1 Introduction - p. 1 2. Chapter 2 Evolution of human–robot relationships - p. 9 3. Chapter 3 Fundamentals of proactive human–robot collaboration - p. 27 4. Chapter 4 Mutual-cognitive and empathic co-working - p. 59 5. Chapter 5 Predictable spatio-temporal collaboration - p. 93 6. Chapter 6 Self-organizing multi-agent teamwork - p. 121 7. Chapter 7 Deployment roadmap of proactive human–robot collaboration - p. 149 8. Chapter 8 Operational modes of industrial proactive human–robot collaboration - p. 193 9. Chapter 9 Case studies of proactive human–robot collaboration in manufacturing - p. 229 10. Chapter 10 Conclusions and future perspectives - p. 265 11. Index - p. 285
Proactive Human–Robot Collaboration Toward Human-Centric Smart Manufacturing is driven by an appreciation of manufacturing scenarios where human and robotic agents can understand each other’s actions and conduct mutual-cognitive, predictable, and self-organizing teamwork. Modern factories’ smart manufacturing transformation and the evolution of relationships between humans and robots in manufacturing tasks set the scene for a discussion on the technical fundamentals of state-of-the-art proactive human–robot collaboration; these are further elaborated into the three main steps (i.e., mutual-cognitive and empathic coworking; predictable spatio-temporal collaboration; self-organizing multiagent teamwork) to achieve an advanced form of symbiotic HRC with high-level, dynamic-reasoning teamwork skills. The authors then present a deployment roadmap and several case studies, providing step-by-step guidance for real-world application of these ground-breaking methods which crucially contribute to the maturing of human-centric, sustainable, and resilient production systems. The volume proves to be an invaluable resource that supports understanding and learning for users ranging from upper undergraduate/graduate students and academic researchers to engineering professionals in a variety of industry contexts.
1. Chapter 1 Introduction - p. 1 2. Chapter 2 Evolution of human–robot relationships - p. 9 3. Chapter 3 Fundamentals of proactive human–robot collaboration - p. 27 4. Chapter 4 Mutual-cognitive and empathic co-working - p. 59 5. Chapter 5 Predictable spatio-temporal collaboration - p. 93 6. Chapter 6 Self-organizing multi-agent teamwork - p. 121 7. Chapter 7 Deployment roadmap of proactive human–robot collaboration - p. 149 8. Chapter 8 Operational modes of industrial proactive human–robot collaboration - p. 193 9. Chapter 9 Case studies of proactive human–robot collaboration in manufacturing - p. 229 10. Chapter 10 Conclusions and future perspectives - p. 265 11. Index - p. 285
