Exploring human-robot cooperation possibilities for semiconductor manufacturing

Weiss, Astrid; Buchner, Roland; Tscheligi, Manfred; Fischer, Hanspeter

doi:10.1109/cts.2011.5928683

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“…This work was extended by Wurhofer et al [30], who explored workers' everyday experiences and contextual influences on it in a semiconductor factory. In general, industrial contexts pose a variety of challenges and restrictions, for instance, fieldwork must not impact work practices [3], [27]. The challenges of these contexts led to a limited number of studies.…”

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Deploying Robots in a Production Environment: A Study on Temporal Transitions of Workers’ Experiences

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Fuchsberger

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Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. Understanding a worker's perspective when introducing robots at humans' workplaces is crucial to improve human-robot interaction in production environments. Taking a temporal perspective on workers' experiences with robots, we explored expectations and general attitudes as well as actual feelings and reflections regarding the deployment of robots in a semiconductor factory. To evoke reports on workers' experiences, we applied a narrative interview technique with 10 workers. To characterize the temporal transition of workers' experiences, we distinguished between three phases in the deployment process: expectations before the deployment of the robots, familiarization with the robots, and experienced consequences of working with the robots. We present characteristic experiences of each phase and describe how these experiences change over time regarding the perceived functional value of the robots, work organization, feelings, social environment, and attitudes. Overall, our research contributes leverage points towards a more positive experience of workers when deploying robots in a factory.

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Deploying Robots in a Production Environment: A Study on Temporal Transitions of Workers’ Experiences

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“…Coraz więcej ośrodków na całym świecie podejmuje badania dotyczące konstrukcji, sterowania oraz programowania tych robotów. Zainteresowanie to jest całkowicie zrozumiałe, gdyż roboty współpracujące wprowadzają zupełnie nową jakość w sposobie wykorzystywania maszyn manipulacyjnych do realizacji zadań, w tym zadań technologicznych [1,2]. Podstawowa różnica między tradycyjnym sposobem eksploatacji robotów przemysłowych a eksploatacją robotów współpracu-jących, polega na zniesieniu granic pomiędzy przestrzenią, w której może się poruszać człowiek i przestrzenią roboczą Piotr Skrobek, Adam Rogowski przeglad Welding Technology Review maszyny.…”

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Bezpośrednia współpraca człowiek-robot w spawalnictwie

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Rogowski

2018

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StreszczenieW artykule omówiono zagadnienia związane z nową tendencją w robotyce, polegającą na coraz szerszym wykorzystywaniu tzw. robotów współpracujących, które dzielą swą przestrzeń roboczą z ludźmi. Przeprowadzony został literaturowy przegląd badań dotyczących programowania i eksploatacji tych robotów. Przedstawiono też niektóre aspekty stosunkowo nowej metody programowania robotów, zwanej programowaniem przez demonstrację. W szczególności autorzy podjęli próbę odpowiedzi na pytanie, czy i w jakim stopniu idea bezpośredniej współpracy człowiek-robot może być realizowana w spawalnictwie. Omówiono dostępne w literaturze informacje o badaniach w tym kierunku, prowadzonych w niektórych ośrodkach naukowych. Wśród różnych aspektów związanych z tą tematyką, zwrócono uwagę na zagadnienia dotyczące komunikacji człowiek-robot współpracujący. Zaprezentowano rozwijaną na Politechnice Warszawskiej koncepcję przystosowania systemu komunikacji głosowej pomiędzy człowiekiem i robotem do specyficznych wymagań, jakie narzuca idea robotów współpracujących. Słowa kluczowe: spawanie zrobotyzowane; roboty współpra-cujące AbstractCurrent paper deals with a new tendency in robotics, consisting in broader and broader exploiting of socalled collaborative robots, sharing their workspace with humans. An overview of research in this area has been performed. Some aspects of robot programming method, called programming by demonstration, have been discussed. In particular, the authors try to answer the question, whether the idea of direct human-robot cooperation can be applied also in welding. Examples of research in this area have been presented. The paper discusses some aspects of human-robot communication. It presents a conception of a novel method of calibration of human-robot voice communication system, now under development at the Warsaw University of Technology. This method is focused on specific requirements resulting from the use of collaborative robots.

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“…Companies, such as KUKA, are investing more and more into User-Centered Development (UCD); usability standards, such as ISO/TR16982:2002 were developed, and user-friendly industrial robots, such as Baxter [37], were brought to the market. Nevertheless, there is yet little user-oriented research concerning assistive robots in the industrial context (e.g., [3,38,39]), including the teach-in of industrial robots and the user-centered development in the industrial development [40]. In addition, the evaluation is another special challenge in and of itself: How can we assess and compare the usability and acceptance of a robotic system for two different application contexts?…”

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First Application of Robot Teaching in an Existing Industry 4.0 Environment: Does It Really Work?

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This article reports three case studies on the usability and acceptance of an industrial robotic prototype in the context of human-robot cooperation. The three case studies were conducted in the framework of a two-year project named AssistMe, which aims at developing different means of interaction for programming and using collaborative robots in a user-centered manner. Together with two industrial partners and a technological partner, two different application scenarios were implemented and studied with an off-the-shelf robotic system. The operators worked with the robotic prototype in laboratory conditions (two days), in a factory context (one day) and in an automotive assembly line (three weeks). In the article, the project and procedures are described in detail, including the quantitative and qualitative methodology. Our results show that close human-robot cooperation in the industrial context needs adaptive pacing mechanisms in order to avoid a change of working routines for the operators and that an off-the-shelf robotic system is still limited in terms of usability and acceptance. The touch panel, which is needed for controlling the robot, had a negative impact on the overall user experience. It creates a further intermediate layer between the user, the robot and the work piece and potentially leads to a decrease in productivity. Finally, the fear of the worker of being replaced by an improved robotic system was regularly expressed and adds an additional anthropocentric dimension to the discussion of human-robot cooperation, smart factories and the upcoming Industry 4.0.

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Exploring human-robot cooperation possibilities for semiconductor manufacturing

Cited by 24 publications

References 6 publications

Deploying Robots in a Production Environment: A Study on Temporal Transitions of Workers’ Experiences

Deploying Robots in a Production Environment: A Study on Temporal Transitions of Workers’ Experiences

Bezpośrednia współpraca człowiek-robot w spawalnictwie

First Application of Robot Teaching in an Existing Industry 4.0 Environment: Does It Really Work?

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