Non-industrial stacker crane with compatibility/extensibility between manual operation and electrical driving

Fukui, Rui; Kousaka, Shuhei; Sato, Tomomasa; Shimosaka, Masamichi

doi:10.1109/aim.2012.6265946

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“…Recognize In a previous system, called the basic system [16], errors may arise that the system cannot detect but the user can.…”

Section: Problem 1: Error That the System Cannotmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In this paper, a non-industrial stacker crane -a tool to help users store daily items as shown in Fig. 1 -is selected as an example for applying proposed extended SysML (user model diagram) [16]. For storing items, the stacker crane lifts a container and hangs it on a hanger fixed on a wall.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…For the stacker crane to be symbiotic to users and introduced easily into their life space, it is basically operated manually without expensive actuators, although actuators may be added afterward to drive the crane electrically. A wall storage method that can tolerate positioning error and a mechanism that smoothly propagates a user's effort for driving the machine were proposed in a preceding study [16]. This system, either manual or automated, was shown in evaluation experiments to have sufficiently-high performance in physical motion.…”

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Design Methodology for Human Symbiotic Machines Based on the Description of User’s Mental Model

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Sato³

et al. 2013

J. Robot. Mechatron.

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This research establishes a methodology for designing human symbiotic machines. In our proposal, the mental model of a user is described by a user model diagram as an extended version of the well-known System Modeling Language (SysML). The user model diagram originated in the state machine diagram and the activity diagram of SysML. Concretely, the behavior of a machine observed by a user (user model), is drawn as a parallel to the actual behavior of a machine (system model). The user model diagram can visualize the physical processes required to use the machine and can reveal any inconsistencies between user and system models. We have selected a non-industrial stacker crane, which stores and retrieves containers through human manual operation, as an application target of the proposed design methodology. To make the stacker crane interface more user-friendly, several design plans are proposed and discussed together with descriptions of user model diagrams. To evaluate the relationship between diagrams and actual performance, prototypes of interfaces are developed, and usability tests are conducted. Results of usability tests indicate that the user model diagram is a good design tool for estimating the basic usability of a human symbiotic machine.

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“…Recognize In a previous system, called the basic system [16], errors may arise that the system cannot detect but the user can.…”

Section: Problem 1: Error That the System Cannotmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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