Cognitive Interaction Analysis in Human–Robot Collaboration Using an Assembly Task

In human–robot collaborative assembly tasks, it is necessary to properly balance skills to maximize productivity. Human operators can contribute with their abilities in dexterous manipulation, reasoning and problem solving, but a bounded workload (cognitive, physical, and timing) should be assigned...

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Autores: Chacón Encalada, Luis Alejandro|||0000-0003-3515-4352, Ponsa Asensio, Pere|||0000-0001-6306-7251, Angulo Bahón, Cecilio|||0000-0001-9589-8199
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/351257
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/351257
https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/electronics10111317
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Human-computer interaction
Human–robot interaction
Assembly
Mental workload
Interacció persona-ordinador
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Informàtica::Robòtica
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Sumario:In human–robot collaborative assembly tasks, it is necessary to properly balance skills to maximize productivity. Human operators can contribute with their abilities in dexterous manipulation, reasoning and problem solving, but a bounded workload (cognitive, physical, and timing) should be assigned for the task. Collaborative robots can provide accurate, quick and precise physical work skills, but they have constrained cognitive interaction capacity and low dexterous ability. In this work, an experimental setup is introduced in the form of a laboratory case study in which the task performance of the human–robot team and the mental workload of the humans are analyzed for an assembly task. We demonstrate that an operator working on a main high-demanding cognitive task can also comply with a secondary task (assembly) mainly developed for a robot asking for some cognitive and dexterous human capacities producing a very low impact on the primary task. In this form, skills are well balanced, and the operator is satisfied with the working conditions