Robot Ergonomics: Optimizing Robot Work

Nof, Shimon Y.

doi:10.1002/9780470172506.ch32

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“…Definition [PRISM Center, 1999] • Collaborative, computer-supported, and communication-enabled operations in highly distributed organizations of humans / robots / autonomous systems • Our goal: Augment human abilities to work (Nof 1999(Nof , 2000a(Nof , 2000b) (v-Design; Virtual Design; I-Robotics: Intelligent Robotics; v-Factory: Virtual factory; i-Tran: Intelligent Tranportation; v-Enterprise: Virtual Enterprise). Hence, e-activities enhance the opportunities for better, more productive work, and at the same time, they widen the competition.…”

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“…e-Work was defined by the PRISM Center (Nof 1999(Nof , 2000a(Nof , 2000b as any collaborative, computer-supported and communication-enabled productive activities in highly distributed organizations of humans and/or robots or autonomous systems (figure 1). In essence, e-Work is comprised of e-activities, namely, activities based on and executed through information technologies.…”

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Design of effective e-Work: review of models, tools, and emerging challenges

Nof

2003

Production Planning & Control

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The foundations and scope of e-Work are described, and investigations of fundamental design principles for e-Work effectiveness reviewed. The premise is that without effective e-Work, the potential of emerging and promising electronic work activities, such as virtual manufacturing, telerobotic medicine, automated construction, intelligent transportation, and e-business, cannot be fully materialized. A typical and recent example of the inability to fulfill the potential of e-Work is the frustration of workers over supply chains/ networks with complex ERP and other information systems, originally designed to simplify and improve their performance. Challenges and emerging e-Work solutions are described, and recent discoveries are clustered in four areas, e-Work; Integration, Coordination and Collaboration; Distributed Decision Support; and Active Middleware, with annotated references. PRISM Center developments of e-Work design principles, models and tools are described, including: Cooperation Requirement Planning; the principle of parallelism; the principle of conflict resolution; new measures of viability and scalability; and the Teamwork Integration Evaluator (TIE), which applies the analogy of distributed computing.

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Section: Introduction: Definitions and Scope Of E-workmentioning

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Design of effective e-Work: review of models, tools, and emerging challenges

Nof

2003

Production Planning & Control

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“…Although there have been some efforts to compare methods-time measurements with their counterparts in robotic manipulation (Nof, 1985), little has been done to investigate the transferability of MTM motion heuristics, which have been taken for granted in manual task manipulation, to robotic task planning. This paper is organized as follows.…”

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Robot assembly planning using a task grammar augmented with heuristic knowledge

Liu

1996

J Intell Manuf

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Automated assembly planning in a manufacturing environment requires not only mathematically sound formal methods and algorithmic computations but also heuristic knowledge. Much of this knowledge can be extracted from manual task manipulation strategies, such as the motion classification scheme used in methods-time measurement (MTM) studies. In this paper, we delineate various task-level operations in the context of robotic assembly, and show how these operations can be organized in the form of a task grammar. The proposed task grammar captures the intrinsic principle on how the sequence of robot operations should be ordered and how one high-level operation can be effectively decomposed into low-level operations. In order to control the process of robot task decomposition, we explicitly represent and apply qualitative heuristic knowledge about task constraints and operation applicability. In the paper, we first describe how syntactical knowledge about robot operations can be formulated for assemblyrelated manipulation tasks. Kext, through illustrative examples, we attempt to show how qualitative knowledge can be effectively used in the task decomposition in three distinct ways: heuristic-based operation pattern matching, spatial-feature-based qualitative state envisionment, and canonical transformation of task environments.

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“…The data analyzed will include, among others, robot weight, power supply, payload, work envelope, available tools, control and sensory systems. The method for related evaluations of manufacturing robots is presented in [2]. A knowledge base to match these capabilities with the requirements of the considered construction jobsite will be designed within this module.…”

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Construction Robotic Equipment Management System (CREMS)

Skibniewski¹,

Vanegas²,

Russell³

1989

Proceedings of the International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (IAARC)

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Robotics application to the execution of construction tasks has been attracting attention in the engineering community since early 1980's, both in Japan and in other highly industrialized nations. First working prototypes of construction robots have been appearing in Japan on a number of construction sites operated by several leading Japanese construction firms. This paper outlines a research project focused on the planning and management aspects of the use of robotic equipment in construction tasks. This project concentrates on four system modules: Construction Task Analysis Module (CTAM); Robot Capability Analysis Module (RCAM); Robot Economics Evaluation Module (REEM); and Robot Implementation Logistics Module (RILM). This paper briefly describes each of these modules, and presents a summary of results obtained from research completed to date on CTAM.

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Robot Ergonomics: Optimizing Robot Work

Cited by 23 publications

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Design of effective e-Work: review of models, tools, and emerging challenges

Design of effective e-Work: review of models, tools, and emerging challenges

Robot assembly planning using a task grammar augmented with heuristic knowledge

Construction Robotic Equipment Management System (CREMS)

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