The article discusses the challenges faced by small and medium enterprises (SMEs) due to a lack of programming skills among human operators working with collaborative robots (cobots). To solve this, the authors present a task-based interaction concept, where humans can delegate complex tasks to cobots without programming. This is done by specifying tasks via triplets that are further decomposed by a Cognitive Control Unit (CCU). The concept is designed to shift the programming workload from human operators to automated algorithms, thereby increasing usability and efficiency. The concept is evaluated in an industrial use case where cobots are used to sand mineral cast basins in a crafts enterprise.
Publication date: 3 Nov 2023
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Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.01253
