Chapter 12: Putting people and robots together in manufacturing: are we ready?

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dc.contributor.authorFletcher, Sarah
dc.contributor.authorTeegan, Johnson
dc.contributor.authorLarreina, Jon
dc.date.accessioned2019-11-07T16:44:22Z
dc.date.available2019-11-07T16:44:22Z
dc.date.issued2019-05-06
dc.description.abstractTraditionally, industrial robots have needed complete segregation from people in manufacturing environments to mitigate the significant risk of injury posed by their high operational speeds and heavy payloads. However, advances in technology now not only enable the application of smaller force-limited robotics for lighter industrial tasks but also wider collaborative deployment of large-scale robots. Such applications will be critical to future manufacturing but present a design and integration challenge as we do not yet know how closer proximity and interactions will impact on workers’ psychological safety and well-being. There is a need to define new ethical and safety standards for putting people and robots together in manufacturing, but to do this we need empirical data to identify requirements. This chapter provides a summary of the current state, explaining why the success of augmenting human–robot collaboration in manufacturing relies on better consideration of human requirements, and describing current research work in the European A4BLUE project to identify this knowledge. Initial findings confirm that ethical and psychological requirements that may be crucial to industrial human–robot applications are not yet being addressed in safety standards or by the manufacturing sector.en_UK
dc.identifier.citationFletcher SR, Johnson TL, Larreina J. (2019) Chapter 12: Putting people and robots together in manufacturing: are we ready? In: Robotics and Well-Being: Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering, pp. 135-147en_UK
dc.identifier.isbn978-3-030-12524-0
dc.identifier.urihttp://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/14692
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.publisherSpringeren_UK
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/*
dc.subjectHuman–robot collaborationen_UK
dc.subjectCollaborative roboten_UK
dc.subjectIndustrial robot Industrial safetyen_UK
dc.subjectSafety standardsen_UK
dc.titleChapter 12: Putting people and robots together in manufacturing: are we ready?en_UK
dc.typeBook chapteren_UK

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