Human-Robot Teaming in Manufactering Settings
How to optimize human-robot collaboration in manufactering settings?
The introduction of industrial robots has offered many benefits to the manufacturing industry. However, human workers in manufacturing are at high risk of ergonomic injuries from repetitive work, and reduced mental health from cognitive overload and working environments. In two studies, we look at how to balance the work between human workers and robot collaborators in a shared work cell.
Task Interdependence in Human-Robot Teaming
How does the level of interdependence between the human and robot worker affect human worker’s mental well-being? In this work, we looked at human worker’s real-time heart rate variability, trust, and perceived safety while working with a robot collaborator in three different levels.
Zhao, F. , Henrichs, C., & Mutlu, B. (2020) Task Interdependence in Human-Robot Teaming. In 2020 29th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN). IEEE
pRAD - Design Interfaces for Robot Attention Demand
We designed two operator interfaces that incorporated robot attention demand, to help human workers to prioritize tasks in a work cell.
Henrichs, C. , Zhao, F. , & Mutlu, B. (under review) Designing Attention-Aware Operator Interfaces for Collaborative Robots