This paper presents the implementation of a robotic system for advanced human robot
collaboration assembly and discusses all the technological approach that has been …

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 …

This paper discusses a digital twin-based approach for designing and redesigning flexible
assembly systems. The digital twin allows modeling the parameters of the production system …

Motivated by recent developments to deploy collaborative robots in industrial production
systems, we investigate the assembly line balancing problem with collaborative robots. The …

Disassembly is the first operation in the remanufacture, repair and recycling of products that
have reached the end of their service life. Both productivity and flexibility should be …

This paper proposes a method for human–robot (HR) task planning, considering at the same
time, the design of the workplace. A model for the representation of humans and robots as a …

The trend towards mass customization puts traditional automation solutions under pressure.
In addition, an aging working population increases the need to improve ergonomics at the …

Despite the ergonomic challenges that large-sized product assemblies underlay for human
operators, related processes are deselected from hybrid automation mostly due to the …

Hand layup is a commonly used process for making composite structures from several plies
of carbon-fiber prepreg. The process involves multiple human operators manipulating and …

This paper emphasises the parallel adjacent U-shaped assembly line balancing problem in
which the collaborative work forces in the system comprise human workers and robots. Apart …