Human–robot collaboration in industrial applications

International Collaboration in an Industrial Design Studio*

This paper describes networking in Industrial Design education between students from a number of international universities that worked independently on a vehicle-design project. The results were presented in a joint exhibition, held in Tokyo Japan, to leading Asian vehicle manufacturers such as Nissan, Mazda and Isuzu motors. The paper describes the networking that occurred between the univers...

Contactless Medium Scale Industrial Robot Collaboration

A new age of industrial robotics is here which includes safety rated human friendly robots. These types of robots are more suitable in high volume and small scale industries. The operations in these areas can be fully automated. There are other industries which have specialty for low volume and high variability. High variety means there are less chances of fully automation as one product will b...

Improving Industrial Collaboration with Linked Data, OWL

We present a product-centric collaboration platform comprising partner companies and their customers. By employing the Linked Data principles it enables them to easily publish and retrieve information about products and to include user-generated content as well as publicly available information from the Linked Open Data web. Information about products is modelled as OWL ontologies, which makes ...

Collaboration Applications in Smart Spaces

Motivation: Collaboration is one of the most important activities that can benefit from the software and hardware infrastructure of smart spaces. It is difficult, however, to design and build useful software to assist human-human and human-computer collaboration in and across smart spaces. The application must be flexible to allow many users to connect and share their information, but at the sa...

Collaboration in Classroom