Increased global competition has placed a premium on customer satisfaction, and there is a
greater demand for manufacturers to be flexible with their products and services. This …

Recently human–robot collaboration (HRC) has emerged as a promising paradigm for mass
personalization in manufacturing owing to the potential to fully exploit the strength of human …

In human-robot collaborative assembly, robots are often required to dynamically change
their pre-planned tasks to collaborate with human operators in a shared workspace …

The additive manufacturing and the robotic applications are tremendously increasing in the
manufacturing field. This review paper discusses the concept of robotic-assisted additive …

Off-site construction aims to shift construction work to factory environment wherein enabling
modular paneling to be automated. Whereas this approach has proven to be advantageous …

The application of industrial robots has greatly promoted the development of industry in the
past decades. Now with the proposal and prevalence of Industry 4.0, industrial robots are …

Vision measurement technology is increasingly utilized in aerospace assembly due to its
high precision, low cost and convenience. However, it remains challenges to calibrate the …

Large rigid-body automatic docking is a crucial but tough task in aerospace assembly.
Traditional large rigid-body spacecraft assembly is achieved manually, which is limited by …

Recently, anthropocentric or human‐centric approaches renewed its importance in smart
manufacturing especially for assembly applications where human dexterity and informal …

Purpose Most manufacturing plants choose the easy way of completely separating human
operators from robots to prevent accidents, but as a result, it dramatically affects the overall …