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Meet Your Robotic Work Colleague: Exploring Human-Robot Collaboration in a Virtual Reality based Research Platform
Autonomous robots, capable of collaborating with humans could benefit industrial production by supporting personnel in domains with tedious, repetitive, and dangerous tasks. To make this vision reality, Human-Robot Collaboration (HRC) has established itself as a research field. HRC researchers identified multiple challenges regarding the technical implementation such as enabling the robot to act autonomously, as well as human factors aspects, e.g., expectation conformity. These challenges prevent current realizations of industrial processes involving the collaboration between humans and robots to reach their full potential. Due to the variety of robot representations and shared task requirements, extensive research is needed to develop solutions to overcome these challenges. However, confronting these challenges in empirical studies is restricted due to safety concerns as exposing participants to prototypical implementations of robot collaboration setups either in full contact or close proximity can provoke hazardous situations. To address this problem, this research presented here proposes a virtual reality (VR) application, where new concepts for HRC configurations can be explored and tested without causing harm to participants. Due to the nature of VR, the application can function as a sandbox, where a wide range of HRC settings can be portrayed without the need for expensive and elaborate setups involving real robots. The design and functionality of the VR application were developed in accordance with the state-of-the-art HRC research literature, established statutory norms, and remarks from industry representatives. The VR application offers several features, such as the implementation of machine learning agents in conjunction with an inverse kinematic system that allows the virtual representation of an autonomous robot to collaborate with a human participant on a designated shared task. The versatility of the VR application allows for the creation of multiple forms of stimulus materials depending on the ...
Meet Your Robotic Work Colleague: Exploring Human-Robot Collaboration in a Virtual Reality based Research Platform
Autonomous robots, capable of collaborating with humans could benefit industrial production by supporting personnel in domains with tedious, repetitive, and dangerous tasks. To make this vision reality, Human-Robot Collaboration (HRC) has established itself as a research field. HRC researchers identified multiple challenges regarding the technical implementation such as enabling the robot to act autonomously, as well as human factors aspects, e.g., expectation conformity. These challenges prevent current realizations of industrial processes involving the collaboration between humans and robots to reach their full potential. Due to the variety of robot representations and shared task requirements, extensive research is needed to develop solutions to overcome these challenges. However, confronting these challenges in empirical studies is restricted due to safety concerns as exposing participants to prototypical implementations of robot collaboration setups either in full contact or close proximity can provoke hazardous situations. To address this problem, this research presented here proposes a virtual reality (VR) application, where new concepts for HRC configurations can be explored and tested without causing harm to participants. Due to the nature of VR, the application can function as a sandbox, where a wide range of HRC settings can be portrayed without the need for expensive and elaborate setups involving real robots. The design and functionality of the VR application were developed in accordance with the state-of-the-art HRC research literature, established statutory norms, and remarks from industry representatives. The VR application offers several features, such as the implementation of machine learning agents in conjunction with an inverse kinematic system that allows the virtual representation of an autonomous robot to collaborate with a human participant on a designated shared task. The versatility of the VR application allows for the creation of multiple forms of stimulus materials depending on the ...
Meet Your Robotic Work Colleague: Exploring Human-Robot Collaboration in a Virtual Reality based Research Platform
Arntz, Alexander (author) / Hoppe, Heinz-Ulrich
2022-06-30
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Electronic Resource
English
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