Analysis of cooperative industrial task execution by mobile and manipulator robots

Abstract

The emergence of mobile robots as a flexible upgrade of industrial AGVs and the simultaneous diffusion of collaborative manipulators pose new problems for the organization of work in industrial plants. The new robots address work environments characterized by limited automation and unstructured layouts. Present study is aimed at demonstrating that, using commercially available technologies, it is possible to assure a fruitful collaborative interaction among three main actors of the factory of tomorrow: the human operator, the mobile robot and the manipulator.