The Effects of Different Robot Trajectories on Situational Awareness in Human-Robot Collaboration

Abstract

This paper describes an experiment, to answer the question whether and how different trajectories from robotic path planning are perceived in a differentiated way from the perspective of the collaborating human being, with regard to situation awareness. This is done with the help of reliable proband experiment, in a HRC Full-Scope Simulator. Only if the human being in a human-robot-collaboration is able to recognize early, what the robot is doing or will do, an ad hoc task distribution can be reasonably realized. The long-term goal of this research is to develop a recommendation for the path planning, in the context of the construction of HRC systems, which enables a simple and fast programming of safe robot movements.