Organized Sessions
Socio-physical Interaction Skills for Cooperative Human-Robot Systems in Agile Production
Robots are on the verge of co-existing with humans on and beyond industrial sites. They must manage physical and social interactions with humans to achieve reconfigurable and resource-efficient production while improving human comfort and trust in automation. Thus, developing socio-physically aware and ergonomic skills and deploying them in robots capable of reconfigurable productive systems would leverage existing and new systems by making them accessible and understandable to everyone. Two elements should come together to guarantee a successful interaction: how the robot understands and reacts to the human. Given that humans are unfamiliar with interacting with robots, their behavior will change through the task as they learn and get more confident. Therefore, new human-centered designs should improve human work processes by adding decision support tools, assistive and interactive robots, and smart self-adapting workplace automation. Another crucial aspect is ensuring that the core technologies under development are“compliant by design” to standards in human-robot interaction and collaboration. This special session debates HRI beyond task execution, based on recent developments on the SOPHIA European project.
Organizers:
Gustavo Jose Giardini Lahr, IIT, Italy
Arash Ajoudani, IIT, Italy
Bram Vanderborght, VUB, Belgium
Matteo Bianchi, UNIPI, Italy
Presentations:
Yuwei Du – Bi-Directional Human-Robot Handover Using a Novel Supernumerary Robotic System
Wanchen Li – A Comparison of Human Skeleton Extractors for Real-Time Human-Robot Interaction
Michael Spitzhirn – Digital Planning of Ability-Appropriate and Productive Human-Robot Interactions in Production
Andrea Cherubini – Progress and Prospects of the H2020 SOPHIA project
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Human Factors in Construction Robotics
Construction Robotics (robots on construction sites) is gaining wider acceptance and more widespread use. The session will focus on the recent advances on the robotic solutions and will have a special focus on the human factors. Human-robot collaboration and use of exoskeletons in this context will be presented. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
• Construction robotics
• Teleoperation
• Simulation of construction processes
• Human-robot collaboration
• Planning of construction processes
• Evaluation of interaction
Organizers:
Gabor Sziebig, SINTEF Manufacturing, Norway
Jason Rambach, DFKI, Germany
Mihoko Niitsuma, Chuo University, Japan
Presentations:
Serena Ivaldi – Teleoperating a Robot for Removing Asbestos Tiles on Roofs: Insights from a Pilot Study
Jason Rambach – Machine perception for human-robot handover scenarios in construction
Patricia Helen Rosen – Design recommendations for construction robots – a human-centred perspective
Dimitrios Giakoumis – Designing Human Robot Interaction interfaces for shotcrete construction robots; the RobetArme project case