About this Research Topic
The integration of robotics into flexible manufacturing systems has significantly improved production flexibility and efficiency, enabling a dynamic response to the diversity of product demands. However, traditional flexible manufacturing frameworks often overlook the necessity of human factors in their design, failing to accommodate the essential roles humans play in control, supervision, and evaluation processes. Conversely, incorporating humans into the flexible manufacturing loop introduces improved decision-making, provides valuable insights on fault diagnosis, and enables creative and analytical capabilities of human operators.
This Research Topic aims to highlight emerging opportunities in flexible and smart manufacturing, emphasizing the integration of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), and the flexible manufacturing system (FMS) from a human-centric perspective including presenting cutting-edge human-machine interfaces for intuitive control, and contributions advancing physical interaction, shared control and teleoperation, AI-enhanced decision support systems for comprehensive supervision, and participatory design methods for inclusive evaluation.
The Research Topic will explore a variety of topics (keywords), including but not limited to: ·
• Adaptive robot control and manipulation in flexible manufacturing
• Effective industrial ergonomics design
• Real-world applications and case studies on robot-assisted manufacturing
• Wearable technologies in automation and manufacturing
• Physics-informed machine/deep learning applications in smart manufacturing
• Safe human-robot interactions
• Human-in-the-loop coordination in manufacturing
• Human performance assessment, human factors analysis and strategies
This Research Topic is linked the 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) workshop of the same name. We invite contributions from the workshop participants, as well as others who may have a relevant contribution. Any contributions which are originally published as workshop proceedings should be extended to include 30% original content.
This Research Topic aims to highlight emerging opportunities in flexible and smart manufacturing, emphasizing the integration of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), and the flexible manufacturing system (FMS) from a human-centric perspective including presenting cutting-edge human-machine interfaces for intuitive control, and contributions advancing physical interaction, shared control and teleoperation, AI-enhanced decision support systems for comprehensive supervision, and participatory design methods for inclusive evaluation.
The Research Topic will explore a variety of topics (keywords), including but not limited to: ·
• Adaptive robot control and manipulation in flexible manufacturing
• Effective industrial ergonomics design
• Real-world applications and case studies on robot-assisted manufacturing
• Wearable technologies in automation and manufacturing
• Physics-informed machine/deep learning applications in smart manufacturing
• Safe human-robot interactions
• Human-in-the-loop coordination in manufacturing
• Human performance assessment, human factors analysis and strategies
This Research Topic is linked the 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) workshop of the same name. We invite contributions from the workshop participants, as well as others who may have a relevant contribution. Any contributions which are originally published as workshop proceedings should be extended to include 30% original content.
Keywords: intelligent, HRI, manufacturing, flexible manufacturing, Human-Robot Interaction, industrial robotics
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