Nowadays, considering the constant changes in customers' demands, manufacturing
systems tend to move more and more towards customization while ensuring the expected …

Robots are becoming interactive and robust enough to be adopted outside laboratories and
in industrial scenarios as well as interacting with humans in social activities. However, the …

In this article, we propose FlexHRC+, a hierarchical human-robot cooperation architecture
designed to provide collaborative robots with an extended degree of autonomy when …

Human–Robot Collaboration (HRC) is an interdisciplinary research area that has gained
attention within the smart manufacturing context. To address changes within manufacturing …

In an effort towards the democratization of Robotics, this article presents a novel End-User
Development framework called Robot Interfaces From Zero Experience (RIZE). The …

The realisation of the ideas of smart factories and sustainable manufacturing can be quickly
realised in companies where industrial production is high-volume, low-mix. However, it is …

Close human-robot interaction (HRI), especially in industrial scenarios, has been vastly
investigated for the advantages of combining human and robot skills. For an effective HRI …

The complexity of production processes in Industry 4.0 is significantly increased, that arise
the need to enable efficient process simulation, execution, monitoring, real-time decision …

End-user robot programming methods have come a long way in enabling users who do not
have conventional robotics training to customize robot behaviors. However, such methods …

In recent years, there has been a growing trend of integrating robots into various dimensions
of daily life, to improve user experiences and offer a range of services. This study explores …