{"title":"Digital planning of ability-appropriate and productive human-robot interactions in production","authors":"M. Spitzhirn, C. Gärtner, L. Fritzsche","doi":"10.1109/ARSO56563.2023.10187520","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ARSO56563.2023.10187520","url":null,"abstract":"Hybrid work systems, which enable interaction between humans and robots, offer high economic and ergonomic potential. This paper demonstrates how workplaces can be designed with regard to human-robot-interaction (HRI) using the process simulation tool ema Work Designer (emaWD). A method for simulation-aided planning of HRI tasks is introduced and applied to a real-world use case of handling and assembling turbochargers onto an engine. In planning process the work processes are simulated and assessed regarding automation, ergonomic and economic potential. Furthermore, a capability-oriented task allocation including workers with different abilities (anthropometrics, flexibility, strength related to aging) as well as the technical feasibility of different robots are considered and evaluated using the HRI-simulation approach. In the result a new HRI-workplace is developed in which the UR10e robot take over manual load handling tasks and acting as a third hand to ensure a worker-specific favorable working position. These measures reduce the ergonomic risk according to the EAWS-method from high risk to a low risk level for all workers. Also, person with limitations can be included into the work process. The execution time of the HRI system is 41.3s, which is within the allowed cycle time. By using a collaborative robot, no additional space is required. Due to the integrated safety technology, the robot can work directly in the work area of the workers.","PeriodicalId":382832,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics and Its Social Impacts (ARSO)","volume":"12 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130926809","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mahdi Khoramshahi, Alexis Poignant, G. Morel, N. Jarrassé
{"title":"A Practical Control Approach for Safe Collaborative Supernumerary Robotic Arms","authors":"Mahdi Khoramshahi, Alexis Poignant, G. Morel, N. Jarrassé","doi":"10.1109/ARSO56563.2023.10187452","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ARSO56563.2023.10187452","url":null,"abstract":"Supernumerary robotic arms have a high potential to increase human capacities to perform complicated tasks; e.g., having a third arm could increase the user's strength, precision, reachability, and versatility. However, having a robotic manipulator working in extreme proximity to the user raises new challenges in terms of safety; i.e., uncontrolled and hazardous collisions with the user's body parts and the environment. In this preliminary work, we show that most of these safety considerations can be extracted from standardized norms and translated into kinematics constraints for the robot. Thus, we propose a quadratic programming approach to achieve safe inverse-kinematics and physical interaction for supernumerary arms. We validate our approach in designing a safe supernumerary arm using the 7-Dof Kinova® Gen3 robot.","PeriodicalId":382832,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics and Its Social Impacts (ARSO)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115474143","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Teleoperating a robot for removing asbestos tiles on roofs: insights from a pilot study","authors":"S. Ivaldi, Edoardo Ghini","doi":"10.1109/ARSO56563.2023.10187476","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ARSO56563.2023.10187476","url":null,"abstract":"Construction robots may one day replace workers in dangerous operations such as the removal of asbestos cement tiles on roofs, an operation that exposes workers to several risks to their health. We argue that such robots will be teleoperated, to enable expert workers to supervise or directly control the operations, leveraging their knowledge of the field and facilitating the adoption of robots. We developed a prototype of the teleoperation and control interface of a prototype robot for roof tiles removal operations, combining a graphical interface, joysticks and a digital twin. We report on the rationale behind our choices, as well as the lessons learned after a pilot study.","PeriodicalId":382832,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics and Its Social Impacts (ARSO)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124063137","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The effect of an empathy-eliciting intervention on the perception of telepresence robot users *","authors":"A. Asadi, K. Fischer","doi":"10.1109/ARSO56563.2023.10187570","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ARSO56563.2023.10187570","url":null,"abstract":"Telepresence robots can be used in different contexts with different goals; for example, to help remote individuals virtually attend classes and meetings, or to allow healthcare workers and patients in different locations to remain in touch. Although these robots bring about different advantages to mediated communication, telepresence pilots have been found to be perceived less favorably than people who are physically present in a communicative context [1]. Thus, in the current work, to mitigate the negative effects of using a telepresence robot, we examine whether an intervention to elicit empathy can influence the way remote participants are perceived. To this end, in a within-subject design, we asked participants (N=30) to follow text-based instructions to do a language learning activity in groups of three, in which one of the participants used a GoBe telepresence robot to join other co-situated group members. We embedded an intervention designed to create empathy with the telepresence operator in the last section of the activity and used two questionnaires, one before and one after the intervention, to collect participants' subjective evaluations of each other. Findings suggest that after the empathy-eliciting question, participants found the telepresence robot user significantly more trustworthy, reliable, and fascinated by art, music, or literature. Results indicate that the empathy-eliciting intervention has a positive effect on the way collocated participants perceive telepresence users.","PeriodicalId":382832,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics and Its Social Impacts (ARSO)","volume":"85 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123616503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ana Puig-Pey, J. L. F. Zamora, B. Amante, J. Moreno, A. Garrell, A. Grau-Saldes, Y. Bolea, A. Santamaria, A. Sanfeliu
{"title":"Human acceptance in the Human-Robot Interaction scenario for last-mile goods delivery","authors":"Ana Puig-Pey, J. L. F. Zamora, B. Amante, J. Moreno, A. Garrell, A. Grau-Saldes, Y. Bolea, A. Santamaria, A. Sanfeliu","doi":"10.1109/ARSO56563.2023.10187432","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ARSO56563.2023.10187432","url":null,"abstract":"The introduction of robotic technology in an existing scenario must be analyzed from the point of view of all the human roles involved in that scenario. In the case of dealing with urban public space, the analysis must consider a large group of citizens who carry out different activities on it. The purpose of this article is to analyze the human roles and the human acceptance when the robotic technology is introduced in the last mile distribution of goods in urban areas. In this work, we start with the description of the Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) scenario for last mile goods delivery, we describe the human roles and we propose a set of relevant indicators to evaluate the human acceptance for this task. Finally, we evaluate the human acceptance through qualitative interviews and quantitative surveys. The study has been done for the peer end-users and bystanders human roles and around 100 people participated.","PeriodicalId":382832,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics and Its Social Impacts (ARSO)","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123734991","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bing-chuan Li, Oumayma Ajjaji, Robin Gigandet, Tatjana Nazir
{"title":"The body images of social robots","authors":"Bing-chuan Li, Oumayma Ajjaji, Robin Gigandet, Tatjana Nazir","doi":"10.1109/ARSO56563.2023.10187489","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ARSO56563.2023.10187489","url":null,"abstract":"The rapid development of social robots has sparked a challenge for both robotics and cognitive sciences to comprehend how humans perceive the appearance of robots. This understanding is a crucial prerequisite for achieving successful human-robot symbiosis. To uncover people's perceptions and attitudes towards robots, we analyzed image-associated words generated spontaneously by humans for 30 robots developed in the past decades. These words delineated a body image for each of the robots. We then used word affective scales and embedding vectors to provide evidence for links between human perception and the body images. Our findings revealed that the valence and dominance of the body images reflected human attitudes toward the general concept of robots. The study further demonstrated that the user-base and usage of robots significantly influenced people's impressions of individual robots. Moreover, we investigated the psychological and cultural implications of the body images by examining semantic distances between the robots and a human-related word, as well as gender- and age-distinguished words. This analysis revealed a relationship between the semantic distances to the word “person” and the robots' affects, as well as gender and age stereotypes towards the robots. Our study demonstrated that using words to build body images for robots is an effective approach to understanding which features are appreciated by people and what influences their feelings towards robots.","PeriodicalId":382832,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics and Its Social Impacts (ARSO)","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121118714","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Open Tele-Impedance Framework to Generate Data for Contact-Rich Tasks in Robotic Manipulation","authors":"A. Giammarino, J. Gandarias, A. Ajoudani","doi":"10.1109/ARSO56563.2023.10187436","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ARSO56563.2023.10187436","url":null,"abstract":"Using large datasets in machine learning has led to outstanding results, in some cases outperforming humans in tasks that were believed impossible for machines. However, achieving human-level performance when dealing with physically interactive tasks, e.g., in contact-rich robotic manipulation, is still a big challenge. It is well known that regulating the Cartesian impedance for such operations is of utmost importance for their successful execution. Approaches like Reinforcement Learning (RL) can be a promising paradigm for solving such problems. More precisely, approaches that use task-agnostic expert demonstrations to bootstrap learning when solving new tasks have a huge potential since they can exploit large datasets. However, existing data collection systems are expensive, complex, or do not allow for impedance regulation. This work represents a first step towards a data collection framework suitable for collecting large datasets of impedance-based expert demonstrations compatible with the RL problem formulation, where a novel action space, namely Variable Impedance Control in End-effector Space (VICES), is used. The framework is designed according to requirements acquired after an extensive analysis of available data collection frameworks for robotics manipulation. The result is a low-cost and open-access tele-impedance framework which makes human experts capable of demonstrating contact-rich tasks.","PeriodicalId":382832,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics and Its Social Impacts (ARSO)","volume":"232 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116385510","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}