There is the increased application of new technologies in manufacturing, service, and
communications. Industry 4.0 is the new fourth industrial revolution, which supports …

Easy-to-use collaborative robotics solutions, where human workers and robots share their
skills, are entering the market, thus becoming the new frontier in industrial robotics. They …

In human-robot collaborative assembly, robots are often required to dynamically change
their pre-planned tasks to collaborate with human operators in a shared workspace …

The evolution of manufacturing systems, influenced by changes along four axes-products,
technology, business strategies and production paradigms-is presented. Adoption of human …

Collaborative robots have lately been extremely relevant to the domain of production and
manufacturing industry after the arrival of Fourth Industrial Revolution or Industry 4.0 (IR 4.0) …

Seamless human–robot collaboration requires the equipping of robots with cognitive
capabilities that enable their awareness of the environment, as well as the actions that take …

Abstract Human-Robot Collaboration (HRC) presents an opportunity to improve the
efficiency of manufacturing processes. However, the existing task planning approaches for …

Human-robot collaboration represents a significant evolutionary step in manufacturing. A
crucial point is to establish a proper task assignment to combine robot productivity with …

One of the main issues about safety in human-robot interaction is the distance calculation
between robot and human. The acquisition of real-time distance information between robot …

In assembly processes, collaborative robots (cobots) can provide valuable support to
improve production performance (assembly time, product quality, worker wellbeing) …