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Augmented Reality Safety Zone Configurations in Human-Robot Collaboration

Year: 2023

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: Close interaction with robots in Human-Robot Collaboration (HRC) can increase worker productivity in production, but cages around the robot often limit this. Our research aims to visualise virtual safety zones around a real robot arm with Augmented Reality (AR), thereby replacing the cages. We tested our system with a collaborative pick-and-place application which mimics a real manufacturing scenario in an industrial robot cell. The shape, size and visualisation of the AR safety zones were tested with 19 participants. The overwhelming preference was for a visualisation that used cylindrical AR safety zones together with a virtual cage bars effect.

Source: ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)

DOI: 10.1145/3568294.3580106

Authors: Yunus Emre Cogurcu, Steve Maddock

Institution: University of Sheffield

Language: English

Topic: Robot Manipulation and Learning

Subfield: Control and Systems Engineering

Field: Engineering

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

OpenAlex ID: W4323536989

FWCI: 3.004

Cites: 10

Cited by: 8

Related to: 10