An emerging scientific field is the study of safety and ergonomics in the agricultural sector during human-robot interaction. Human-robotic synergetic systems are considered to be the most mature way to circumvent problems appearing due to the complex and unpredictable nature of the agricultural environment, which contrasts with the stable domain found in industrial settings. In promising working ecosystems, the distinctive cognitive human characteristics of perception, decision making and acting can be combined with the strength and repeatable accuracy of robots. However, safety must be guaranteed both in terms of avoiding accidents during unwanted physical contacts and provoking musculoskeletal disorders. The latter is a concise term for describing numerous soft tissues disorders, which have reached epidemic proportions among farmers undermining their quality of life. This investigation, by describing the fundamentals of human-robot interaction from an agriculture-oriented perspective, methodically tries to identify potential hazards that can put human safety at risk. In order to overcome these hazards, approaches for minimising the occurrence of injuries analysed along with methods for safe collaboration. The innovation of this study lies on focusing on ergonomics during agricultural human-robot interactive operations. Thus, through reviewing the basic ergonomic principles and the main risk factors, potential challenges are captured concerning human factors, technologies and policy directions. Ensuring of safety in this kind of systems should have a positive impact in technological, societal and economic aspects. For this purpose, an intensive effort and interdisciplinary collaboration are required to establish a sustainable anthropocentric human-robot interactive ecosystem.

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人机交互农业操作中的安全和人体工程学

一个新兴的科学领域是在人机交互过程中研究农业部门的安全和人体工程学。由于农业环境的复杂性和不可预测性，人机协同系统被认为是规避问题的最成熟方法，这与工业环境中的稳定领域形成鲜明对比。在有前途的工作生态系统中，感知、决策和行动等人类独特的认知特征可以与机器人的力量和可重复的准确性相结合。但是，必须在避免意外身体接触期间发生事故和引发肌肉骨骼疾病方面确保安全。后者是描述许多软组织疾病的简明术语，在农民中已经达到流行病的程度，影响了他们的生活质量。这项调查通过从面向农业的角度描述人机交互的基本原理，有条不紊地尝试识别可能危及人类安全的潜在危险。为了克服这些危险，分析了最大限度地减少伤害发生的方法以及安全协作的方法。本研究的创新之处在于关注农业人机交互操作中的人体工程学。因此，通过审查基本的人体工程学原理和主要风险因素，可以捕捉到有关人为因素、技术和政策方向的潜在挑战。确保此类系统的安全性应在技术、社会和经济方面产生积极影响。