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Self-improving situation awareness for human–robot-collaboration using intelligent Digital Twin

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  • Manuel Müller

    (University of Stuttgart)

  • Tamás Ruppert

    (University of Pannonia)

  • Nasser Jazdi

    (University of Stuttgart)

  • Michael Weyrich

    (University of Stuttgart)

Abstract

The situation awareness, especially for collaborative robots, plays a crucial role when humans and machines work together in a human-centered, dynamic environment. Only when the humans understands how well the robot is aware of its environment can they build trust and delegate tasks that the robot can complete successfully. However, the state of situation awareness has not yet been described for collaborative robots. Furthermore, the improvement of situation awareness is now only described for humans but not for robots. In this paper, the authors propose a metric to measure the state of situation awareness. Furthermore, the models are adapted to the collaborative robot domain to systematically improve the situation awareness. The proposed metric and the improvement process of the situation awareness are evaluated using the mobile robot platform Robotino. The authors conduct extensive experiments and present the results in this paper to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed approach. The results are compared with the existing research on the situation awareness, highlighting the advantages of our approach. Therefore, the approach is expected to significantly improve the performance of cobots in human–robot collaboration and enhance the communication and understanding between humans and machines.

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  • Manuel Müller & Tamás Ruppert & Nasser Jazdi & Michael Weyrich, 2024. "Self-improving situation awareness for human–robot-collaboration using intelligent Digital Twin," Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, Springer, vol. 35(5), pages 2045-2063, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:joinma:v:35:y:2024:i:5:d:10.1007_s10845-023-02138-9
    DOI: 10.1007/s10845-023-02138-9
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