Human-centric collaborative manufacturing

Developing smart solutions to integrate collaborative robots with human operators to maximize their well-being while ensuring the required productivity in the context of Industry 5.0. Novel human-centric collaborative systems must consider the specific requirements and needs of every human operator for their cooperation with cobot. In particular, the features of the performed tasks assigned to each of them, as well as the peculiar physical conditions are key for a superior human-machine interaction. To reach this goal this project will adopt wearable sensors, empowered with artificial intelligence algorithms for an innovative paradigm in human-centric collaborative manufacturing. Physiological data will be acquired with wearable sensors along with motions of human operator in productive environment through computer vision or similar techniques. Furthermore the interactions of the operators with productive environments will be monitored with different tools and sensors, to assess human-process interactions, e.g. operator movements, interaction with machines, and material flow transportations.