Design and Evaluation of an Augmented Reality Head-Mounted Display Interface for Human Robot Teams Collaborating in Physically Shared Manufacturing Tasks
Wesley P Chan, Geoffrey Hanks, Maram Sakr, Haomiao Zhang, Tiger Zuo, H, F Machiel Van der Loos, Elizabeth Croft

TL;DR
This paper presents an experimental evaluation of an augmented reality interface for human-robot teams in shared manufacturing tasks, demonstrating benefits in reducing physical demand and increasing robot utilization.
Contribution
It introduces a novel AR interface for collaborative human-robot manufacturing tasks and evaluates its effectiveness compared to traditional controls.
Findings
AR reduces physical demand and task completion time
AR increases robot utilization
Users find AR more novel but less dependable
Abstract
We provide an experimental evaluation of a wearable augmented reality (AR) system we have developed for human-robot teams working on tasks requiring collaboration in shared physical workspace. Recent advances in AR technology have facilitated the development of more intuitive user interfaces for many human-robot interaction applications. While it has been anticipated that AR can provided a more intuitive interface to robot assistants helping human workers in various manufacturing scenarios, existing studies in robotics have been largely limited to teleoperation and programming. Industry 5.0 envisions cooperation between human and robot working in teams. Indeed, there exist many industrial task that can benefit from human-robot collaboration. A prime example is high-value composite manufacturing. Working with our industry partner towards this example application, we evaluated our AR…
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Taxonomy
TopicsAugmented Reality Applications · Interactive and Immersive Displays · Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts
