Making Informed Decisions: Supporting Cobot Integration Considering Business and Worker Preferences
Abstract
Robots are ubiquitous in small-to-large-scale manufacturers. While collaborative robots (cobots) have significant potential in these settings due to their flexibility and ease of use, proper integration is critical to realize their full potential. Specifically, cobots need to be integrated in ways that utilize their strengths, improve manufacturing performance, and facilitate use in concert with human workers. Effective integration requires careful consideration and the knowledge of roboticists, manufacturing engineers, and business administrators. We propose an approach involving the stages of planning, analysis, development, and presentation, to inform manufacturers about cobot integration within their facilities prior to the integration process. We contextualize our approach in a case study with an SME collaborator and discuss insights learned.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2401.05587,
title = {Making Informed Decisions: Supporting Cobot Integration Considering Business and Worker Preferences},
author = {Dakota Sullivan and Nathan Thomas White and Andrew Schoen and Bilge Mutlu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.05587},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
9 pages, 9 figures. To be published in Proceedings of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '24)