Smart manufacturing and smart factories depend on automation and robotics, whereas
human–robot collaboration (HRC) contributes to increasing the effectiveness and …

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 …

Human–robot collaboration is enabled by the digitization of production and has become a
key technology for the factory of the future. It combines the strengths of both the human …

Human–robot collaborative disassembly is an approach designed to mitigate the effects of
uncertainties associated with the condition of end-of-life products returned for …

This study proposes a user's intuitive intention-based control system for mobile robot
platforms. As an application of the control scheme, we focused on a robot that transports …

The transformation of today's manufacturing lines into truly adaptive systems facilitating
individualized mass production requires new approaches for the efficient integration …

Task-sharing and Human-Robot Collaboration has gained increased attention with the
widespread commissioning and usage of collaborative robots. However, recent studies …

Inferring human operators' actions in shared collaborative tasks plays a crucial role in
enhancing the cognitive capabilities of industrial robots. In all these incipient collaborative …

The adoption of robots for collaborative tasks strongly depends on ensuring the safety of the
operators, through both internal sensors for collision detection and protective stop, and …

In the automotive industry, market demands tend to require more variants of products while
life cycles become shorter. This means an increasing complexity in automotive assembly …