Abstract Human–Robot Collaboration (HRC) has a pivotal role in smart manufacturing for
strict requirements of human-centricity, sustainability, and resilience. However, existing HRC …

Repetitive industrial tasks can be easily performed by traditional robotic systems. However,
many other works require cognitive knowledge that only humans can provide. Human-Robot …

A recent trend in industrial robotics is to have robotic manipulators working side-by-side with
human operators. A challenging aspect of this coexistence is that the robot is required to …

Effective task scheduling in human-robot collaboration (HRC) scenarios is one of the great
challenges of collaborative robotics. The shared workspace inside an industrial setting …

Tracking human operators working in the vicinity of collaborative robots can improve the
design of safety architecture, ergonomics, and the execution of assembly tasks in a human …

Safety and efficiency are two important aspects of human-robot collaboration (HRC). Most
existing control methods for HRC consider either contactless HRC or physical HRC …

The human-robot collaboration scenarios are characterized by the presence of human
operators and robots that work in close contact with each other. As a consequence, the …

This study aims to investigate how service automation is associated with the volume of
international trade in services and how the interactions of automation, industry, and national …

In collaborative robotic applications, human and robot have to work together to accomplish a
common job, composed by a set of tasks. In order to achieve an efficient human-robot …

Enforcing the cessation of motion is a common action in robotic systems to avoid the
damage that the robot can exert on itself, its environment or, in shared environments …