Human Robot Collaboration for Enhancing Work Activities.

Journal: Human factors
Published Date:

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: Trade-offs between productivity, physical workload (PWL), and mental workload (MWL) were studied when integrating collaborative robots (cobots) into existing manual work by optimizing the allocation of tasks.

Authors

  • Li Liu
    Metanotitia Inc., Shenzhen, China.
  • Andrew J Schoen
    University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
  • Curt Henrichs
    University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
  • Jingshan Li
    University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
  • Bilge Mutlu
    a Department of Computer Sciences , University of Wisconsin-Madison , Madison , WI , USA.
  • Yajun Zhang
    Shanghai University, School of Computer Engineering and Science, Shanghai, China.
  • Robert G Radwin
    Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI.