Many industrial tasks cannot be executed by a robot alone. A way to help workers in order to decrease the risk of musculoskeletal disorders is to assist them with a collaborative robot. Yet assessing its usefulness to the worker remains costly because it usually requires a prototype. We propose a dynamic simulation framework to model the performing of a task jointly by a virtual manikin and a r...

The term "INDUSTRY 4.0" or "fourth industrial revolution" was first introduced at the fair in 2011 in Hannover. It comes from the high-tech strategy of the German Federal Government that promotes automation-computerization to complete smart automation, meaning the introduction of a method of self-automation, self-configuration, self-diagnosing and fixing the problem, knowledge and intelligent d...

The paper describes a work in progress for modeling an emotion-based autonomous robot controller designed to coordinate the interaction with the environment. The robot courses of actions are conceptualized as consequences of collaborative multi-agent fuzzy decision making processes.

This article describes a pilot study in which a novel experimental setup, involving an autonomous humanoid robot, KASPAR, participating in a collaborative, dyadic video game, was implemented and tested with children with autism, all of whom had impairments in playing socially and communicating with others. The children alternated between playing the collaborative video game with a neurotypical ...

ABSTRACT: With the advent of collaborative robots, there is a great potential to improve work performance by human-robot collaboration in engineering tasks. Construction is no exception. Many construction tasks are based on the movement of objects (e.g., material), which are viable candidates for human-robot collaboration. However, due to the physically imposing nature of robot operations and t...

The objective of our research effort is to enable robots to engage in complex collaborative tasks with humanrobot interaction. To function as a reliable assistant or teammate, the robot must be able to adapt to the actions of its human partner and respond to temporal variations in its own and its partner’s actions. Dynamic plan execution algorithms provide a fast and robust method of executing ...

A swarm of robots is composed of several small and simple robots that can communicate to perform complex tasks. Those robots are subject to failures: battery outage, hardware destruction, or hardware failure. When a robot fails, its whole state is lost. The task realized by this robot needs to be restarted then the swarm might need some data from the failed robot. Even when this data is not nee...

We examine the problem of learning a visual map of the environment while maintaining an accurate pose estimate. Our approach is based on using two robots in a simple collaborative scheme; in practice, one of these robots can be much less capable than the other. In many mapping contexts, a robot moves about collecting data (images, in particular) which are later used to assemble a map; we can th...

This paper describes a synthesizing method for multi-robot collaborative localization. A distributed extended Kalman filter based on robot odometry and external North Star signals for data fusion is first designed for the localization of individuals in the robot group. Relying on relative observation by infrared sensors and gyroscopes mounted on robots, and the ‘uncertainty volume’ strategy, th...