Title
Cobot programming for collaborative industrial tasks: An overview
Abstract
Collaborative robots (cobots) have been increasingly adopted in industries to facilitate human–robot collaboration. Despite this, it is challenging to program cobots for collaborative industrial tasks as the programming has two distinct elements that are difficult to implement: (1) an intuitive element to ensure that the operations of a cobot can be composed or altered dynamically by an operator, and (2) a human-aware element to support cobots in producing flexible and adaptive behaviours dependent on human partners. In this area, some research works have been carried out recently, but there is a lack of a systematic summary on the subject. In this paper, an overview of collaborative industrial scenarios and programming requirements for cobots to implement effective collaboration is given. Then, detailed reviews on cobot programming, which are categorised into communication, optimisation, and learning, are conducted. Additionally, a significant gap between cobot programming implemented in industry and in research is identified, and research that works towards bridging this gap is pinpointed. Finally, the future directions of cobots for industrial collaborative scenarios are outlined, including potential points of extension and improvement.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1016/j.robot.2019.03.003
Robotics and Autonomous Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
Human–robot collaboration,Intuitive programming,Human-awareness,Cobot
Computer science,Simulation,Bridging (networking),Human–computer interaction,Operator (computer programming),Robot
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
116
0921-8890
5
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.45
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shirine El Zaatari152.14
Mohamed Marei250.45
W. D. Li337434.17
Zahid Usman4564.54