Proactive Human-Robot Collaboration Toward Human-Centric Smart Manufacturing

Shufei Li, Pai Zheng, Lihui Wang

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN:
  9780443139437
• eBook ISBN:
  9780443139444
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Semantics
• Index: Technology & Engineering

Proactive Human–Robot Collaboration Toward Human-Centric Smart Manufacturing is driven by an appreciation of manufacturing scenarios where human and robotic agents can understand each other's actions and conduct mutual-cognitive, predictable, and self-organizing teamwork. Modern factories' smart manufacturing transformation and the evolution of relationships between humans and robots in manufacturing tasks set the scene for a discussion on the technical fundamentals of state-of-the-art proactive human–robot collaboration; these are further elaborated into the three main steps (i.e., mutual-cognitive and empathic coworking; predictable spatio-temporal collaboration; self-organizing multiagent teamwork) to achieve an advanced form of symbiotic HRC with high-level, dynamic-reasoning teamwork skills. The authors then present a deployment roadmap and several case studies, providing step-by-step guidance for real-world application of these ground-breaking methods which crucially contribute to the maturing of human-centric, sustainable, and resilient production systems. The volume proves to be an invaluable resource that supports understanding and learning for users ranging from upper undergraduate/graduate students and academic researchers to engineering professionals in a variety of industry contexts. - Offers pioneering information on an industry 5.0 topic that has attracted much research interest in recent years - Takes advantage of a structured and comprehensive approach to seamlessly combine theory, latest technological developments, and their practical applications - Includes actionable methods, while conceptualizing future implications for smart manufacturing

Table of contents

• Proactive Human–Robot Collaboration Toward Human-Centric Smart Manufacturing
• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of figures
• List of tables
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1 Introduction
• Chapter 2 Evolution of human–robot relationships
• Chapter 3 Fundamentals of proactive human–robot collaboration
• Chapter 4 Mutual-cognitive and empathic co-working
• Chapter 5 Predictable spatio-temporal collaboration
• Chapter 6 Self-organizing multi-agent teamwork
• Chapter 7 Deployment roadmap of proactive human–robot collaboration
• Chapter 8 Operational modes of industrial proactive human–robot collaboration
• Chapter 9 Case studies of proactive human–robot collaboration in manufacturing
• Chapter 10 Conclusions and future perspectives
• Index