There is a strong interest in the scope of human–industrial robot collaboration (HIRC) in manufacturing industry for greater flexibility and productivity. However, HIRC in manufacturing is still in its infancy; industrial practitioners have many apprehensions and uncertainties concerning the system’s performance and human operators’ safety. Therefore, there is a need for investigations into design processes and methods to make sure the designed HIRC workstations successfully meet design guidelines on system performance, human safety and ergonomics for practical industrial applications. This research proposes a HIRC workstation design process. The novelty of this design process is the methodology to evaluate the HIRC workstation design alternatives by considering both performance and safety characteristics through computer-based simulations. As a proof of concept, the proposed HIRC design process is applied on an industrial manufacturing case from a heavy-vehicle manufacturing company.

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人机机器人协作工作站设计的性能和安全性评估的仿真方法

为了提高灵活性和生产率，制造业中的人机机器人协作（HIRC）范围引起了人们极大的兴趣。但是，制造业中的HIRC仍处于起步阶段。工业从业者对系统的性能和操作人员的安全性有许多忧虑和不确定性。因此，需要对设计过程和方法进行调查，以确保所设计的HIRC工作站成功满足有关在实际工业应用中的系统性能，人身安全和人体工程学的设计准则。这项研究提出了HIRC工作站的设计过程。该设计过程的新颖之处在于可以通过基于计算机的仿真同时考虑性能和安全特性来评估HIRC工作站设计替代方案的方法。