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Design Method of Human–Industrial Robot Collaborative Workstation with industrial Application
Mälardalen University, School of Innovation, Design and Engineering, Innovation and Product Realisation. Scania CV AB, Global Industrial Development, Södertälje, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2401-0380
Scania CV AB, Global Industrial Development, Södertälje, Sweden.
Mälardalen University, School of Innovation, Design and Engineering, Innovation and Product Realisation. KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7935-8811
School of Engineering, Skövde University, Skövde, Sweden.
2020 (English)In: International journal of computer integrated manufacturing (Print), ISSN 0951-192X, E-ISSN 1362-3052, Vol. 33, no 9, p. 911-924Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

How to design Human-Industrial Robot Collaborative (HIRC) workstations is one of the key challenges in the realisation of safe and efficient HIRC systems in industry. The aim of this paper is to present a simple method to be used in early phases of HIRC workstation design. The design method requires a simulation tool and is based on systematic design methodologies and its reference work, Pahl and Beitz ' s engineering design framework. The proposed HIRC design method consists of four phases: planning and clarifying the work task, conceptual design, embodiment design and detail design, where iteration loops back to previous phases are vital. This design method is applied in an industrial HIRC design case on assembly of a flywheel cover on a heavy vehicle engine block. In this application example, a previously developed HIRC simulation software is used to generate quantitative values on identified evaluation criteria, in this case operation time and biomechanical load. This proposed HIRC design method in combination with any type of simulation tool enables the systematic design of HIRC workstations early in the production development process.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2020. Vol. 33, no 9, p. 911-924
Keywords [en]
Human–robot collaboration; workstation design; engineering design; human–robot interaction
National Category
Production Engineering, Human Work Science and Ergonomics
Research subject
Innovation and Design
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-46570DOI: 10.1080/0951192X.2020.1815844ISI: 000571966500001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85091278101OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mdh-46570DiVA, id: diva2:1380156
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INNOFACTURE - innovative manufacturing developmentAvailable from: 2019-12-18 Created: 2019-12-18 Last updated: 2020-11-05Bibliographically approved
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1. Designing workstations for human–industrial robot collaboration: Development and application of simulation software
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Designing workstations for human–industrial robot collaboration: Development and application of simulation software
2020 (English)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

Human-industrial robot collaboration (HIRC) creates an opportunity for an ideal combination of human senses and industrial robot efficiency. The strength, endurance and accuracy of industrial robots can be combined with human intelligence and flexibility to create workstations with increased productivity, quality and reduced ergonomic load compared with traditional manual workstations. Even though multiple technical developments of industrial robot and safety systems have taken place over the last decade, solutions facilitating HIRC workstation design are still limited. One element in realising an efficient design of a future workstation is a simulation software. Thus the objective of this research is to (1) develop a demonstrator software that simulates, visualises and evaluates HIRC workstations and (2) propose a design process of how to apply such a simulation software in an industrial context.

The thesis comprises five papers describing the development of a HIRC simulation software and its corresponding design process. Two existing simulation software tools, one for digital human modelling and one for robotic simulation, were merged into one application. Evaluation measures concerning operation time and ergonomic load were included in the common software. Existing engineering design methods were applied in a HIRC workstation context to describe the utilisation of a HIRC simulation software. These developments were demonstrated in five actual industrial cases from a heavy vehicle manufacturing company.

The HIRC simulation software developed enables simulation, visualisation and evaluation of all kinds of HIRC workstations where human and robot simultaneously work in a collaborative environment including hand-guiding tasks. Multiple layout alternatives can be visualised and compared with quantitative numbers of total operation time and biomechanical load on the human body. An integrated HIRC workstation design process describes how such a simulation software can be applied to create suitable workstations. This process also includes a safety measure by which the collision forces between the industrial robot and the human are predicted. These forces have to be minimised to tolerable limits in order to design safe HIRC workstations.

The HIRC simulation software developed and the proposed workstation design process enable more efficient HIRC workstation design. The possibility of designing and evaluating HIRC alternatives for hand-guiding activities is rarely found in other simulation software. The evaluation could include different types of layout alternatives and workstations: HIRC, fully manual or fully automatic. All of these could be compared based on their total operation time and biomechanical load and thus be used in workstation design decision making.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Västerås: Mälardalen University, 2020
Series
Mälardalen University Press Dissertations, ISSN 1651-4238 ; 306
National Category
Production Engineering, Human Work Science and Ergonomics
Research subject
Innovation and Design
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urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-46591 (URN)978-91-7485-456-5 (ISBN)
Public defence
2020-02-14, Filen, Mälardalens högskola, Eskilstuna, 10:00 (English)
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INNOFACTURE - innovative manufacturing development
Available from: 2019-12-19 Created: 2019-12-18 Last updated: 2020-11-02Bibliographically approved

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