期刊
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ADVANCED MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY
卷 113, 期 7-8, 页码 2369-2384出版社
SPRINGER LONDON LTD
DOI: 10.1007/s00170-021-06653-y
关键词
Human-robot interaction; Collaborative assembly; Collaborative robotics; Assembly cycle; Industry 4; 0
资金
- Open Access Publishing Fund of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Industrial collaborative robotics is a key technology driving Industry 4.0, improving flexibility and operator conditions through safe human-machine interaction. These systems often involve re-designing existing manual workstations to reduce assembly time and offer promising economic returns.
Industrial collaborative robotics is an enabling technology and one of the main drivers of Industry 4.0 in industrial assembly. It allows a safe physical and human-machine interaction with the aim of improving flexibility, operator's work conditions, and process performance at the same time. In this regard, collaborative assembly is one of the most interesting and useful applications of human-robot collaboration. Most of these systems arise from the re-design of existing manual assembly workstations. As a consequence, manufacturing companies need support for an efficient implementation of these systems. This work presents a systematical methodology for the design of human-centered and collaborative assembly systems starting from manual assembly workstations. In particular, it proposes a method for task scheduling identifying the optimal assembly cycle by considering the product and process main features as well as a given task allocation between the human and the robot. The use of the proposed methodology has been tested and validated in an industrial case study related to the assembly of a touch-screen cash register. Results show how the new assembly cycle allows a remarkable time reduction with respect to the manual cycle and a promising value in terms of payback period.
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