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Design of a Robotic Workmate

verfasst von : Sarah Luisa Müller, Stefan Schröder, Sabina Jeschke, Anja Richert

Erschienen in: Digital Human Modeling. Applications in Health, Safety, Ergonomics, and Risk Management: Ergonomics and Design

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

In the near future, robots and people will work hand in hand. Through technical development, robots will be able to follow social rules, interact and communicate with people and move freely in the environment. The number of these so-called social robots will increase significantly especially in production spaces forming hybrid human-robot-teams. This expected increasing integration of robots in production environments raises questions on how to design an ideal robot for hybrid collaboration. While most of the research focuses on the technical aspects of human-machine interactions, there is still a strong need for research on the psychological and social aspects that influence the cooperation within hybrid teams.
In addition to existing research work, the present research project investigates how the appearance and accuracy of a robot influences the outcomes of a collaborative task (i.e. performance, perceived team functionality and trust) within a Wizard-of-Oz experiment, which was set in a virtual reality setting.
One major finding was that the accuracy of the robot influenced the level of trust, faulty robots were perceived as less trustworthy. Furthermore, the appearance of the robots influenced the perceived team functionality and the collaborative performance. Industrial robots led to a higher task reflexivity and performance.
The results will help to improve the future designs of robots, focusing on psychological needs of the human partners.

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Fußnoten
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The participants interact with the system that they believe to be autonomous, but which is actually being operated by an unseen human being.
 
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The Virtual Theater (by MSE Weibull) is an immersive simulator that combines the natural user interfaces of a Head Mounted Display and an omnidirectional conveyor belt. Through a tracking system, the user’s position and orientation in virtual space could be determined. It was combined with a wireless presenter (Logitech Wireless Presenter R400), which served as an input device.
 
3
The production hall and the robots were designed using Cinema 4D and implemented with Unreal Engine (game engine) and C++.
 
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Considering the Godspeed Test to measure the users’ perception of the robot, the humanoid robot was rated as more humanlike (\( \bar{x} = 2.0 6,SD = . 5 3 \) vs. \( \bar{x} = 2. 3 8,SD = . 7 7 \)), t (114.54) = −2.94, p = .004. Humanoids were also perceived as more animated (\( \bar{x} = 2. 5 4,SD = . 5 7 \) vs. \( \bar{x} = 2. 7 5,SD = . 7 1 \)), t (151) = −2.09, p = .038, likeable (\( \bar{x} = 3. 1 9,SD = . 4 8 \) vs. \( \bar{x} = 3. 7 8,SD = . 5 3 \) \( \bar{x} = 3. 7 8,SD = . 5 3 \)), t (151) = −7.15, p < .001, and intelligent (\( \bar{x} = 3.0 9,SD = . 6 7 \) vs. \( \bar{x} = 3. 3 9,SD = . 5 8 \)), t (151) = −2.84, p = .005. No influence was found in the level of perceived safety (\( \bar{x} = 2. 6 9,SD = . 5 2 \) vs. \( \bar{x} = 2. 5 4,SD = . 5 8 \)), t (151) = 1.69, p = .093.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Design of a Robotic Workmate
verfasst von
Sarah Luisa Müller
Stefan Schröder
Sabina Jeschke
Anja Richert
Copyright-Jahr
2017
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58463-8_37

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