Beware of the robot: A highly interactive and immersive Virtual Reality Training application in robotic manufacturing systems

Abstract

A highly interactive and immersive Virtual Reality Training System (VRTS) is developed, in terms of an educational serious game that simulates the cooperation between industrial robotic manipulators and humans, executing manufacturing tasks. "BeWare of the robot" application ultimately aims at studying the acceptability of human-robot collaboration, when both human and robot share the same workspace. The initial version of the application was evaluated by a group of users. Experimental results on usability and technical aspects are presented and several remarks about users' experience and behavior in the virtual world are discussed. © IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2013.