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Development of a Human Factors Roadmap for the Successful Implementation of Industrial Human-Robot Collaboration

Authors : George Charalambous, Sarah Fletcher, Philip Webb

Published in: Advances in Ergonomics of Manufacturing: Managing the Enterprise of the Future

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

The concept of industrial human-robot collaboration (HRC) is becoming increasingly integrated into manufacturing production lines as a means for enhancing productivity and product quality. However, developments have focused primarily on the technology and, until recently, little research has been geared to understand the key human factors (HF) that need to be considered to enable successful implementation of industrial HRC. Recent work by the authors has led to the identification of key organisational and individual level HF. The purpose of this paper is to draw together the evidence from their studies and propose a HF roadmap for the successful implementation of industrial HRC. The roadmap will have profound implications as it enables automation specialists and manufacturing system engineers to understand the key HF that need to be considered optimise the efficiency and productivity of the collaboration between humans and industrial robots.

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Metadata
Title
Development of a Human Factors Roadmap for the Successful Implementation of Industrial Human-Robot Collaboration
Authors
George Charalambous
Sarah Fletcher
Philip Webb
Copyright Year
2016
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41697-7_18

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