Purpose

Recent years have seen a technological change, Industry 4.0, in the manufacturing industry. Human–robot cooperation, a new application, is increasing and facilitating collaboration without fences, cages or any kind of separation. The purpose of the paper is to review mainstream academic publications to evaluate the current status of human–robot cooperation and identify potential areas of further research.

Design/methodology/approach

A systematic literature review is offered that searches, appraises, synthetizes and analyses relevant works.

Findings

The authors report the prevailing status of human–robot collaboration, human factors, complexity/ programming, safety, collision avoidance, instructing the robot system and other aspects of human–robot collaboration.

Practical implications

This paper identifies new directions and potential research in practice of human–robot collaboration, such as measuring the degree of collaboration, integrating human–robot cooperation into teamwork theories, effective functional relocation of the robot and product design for human robot collaboration.

Originality/value

This paper will be useful for three cohorts of readers, namely, the manufacturers who require a baseline for development and deployment of robots; users of robots-seeking manufacturing advantage and researchers looking for new directions for further exploration of human–machine collaboration.

中文翻译：

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行业技术飞跃：生产中的人机合作

目的

近年来，制造业发生了技术变革，即工业4.0。人机协作是一种新应用，正在不断发展，并促进了没有围栏，笼子或任何形式隔离的协作。本文的目的是回顾主流学术出版物，以评估人机合作的现状，并确定进一步研究的潜在领域。

设计/方法/方法

提供了系统的文献综述，以搜索，评估，综合和分析相关作品。

发现

作者报告了人机协作的普遍状态，人为因素，复杂性/编程，安全性，避免碰撞，指导机器人系统以及人机协作的其他方面。

实际影响

本文确定了人机协作实践中的新方向和潜在研究，例如测量协作程度，将人机协作纳入团队合作理论，有效的机器人功能重定位以及用于人机协作的产品设计。

创意/价值

本文将对三类读者有用，即需要基线来开发和部署机器人的制造商；以及 寻求制造优势的机器人用户和研究人员正在寻找进一步探索人机协作的新方向。