Cogurcu, Y.E., Douthwaite, J.A. and Maddock, S. orcid.org/0000-0003-3179-0263 (2022) Augmented reality for safety zones in human-robot collaboration. In: Turner, M. and Vangorp, P., (eds.) Computer Graphics & Visual Computing (CGVC) 2022. Computer Graphics & Visual Computing (CGVC) 2022, 15-16 Sep 2022, Virtual conference. Eurographics Digital Library
Abstract
Worker productivity in manufacturing could be increased by reducing the distance between robots and humans in human-robot collaboration (HRC). However, physical cages generally limit this interaction. We use Augmented Reality (AR) to visualise virtual safety zones on a real robot arm, thereby replacing the physical cages and bringing humans and robots closer together. We demonstrate this with a collaborative pick and place application that makes use of a Universal Robots 10 (UR10) robot arm and a Microsoft HoloLens 2 for control and visualisation. This mimics a real task in an industrial robot cell. The virtual safety zone sizes are based on ISO standards for HRC. However, we are the first to also consider hardware and network latencies in the calculations of the virtual safety zone sizes.
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Item Type: | Proceedings Paper |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2022 The Author(s). Eurographics Proceedings © 2022 The Eurographics Association. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Engineering (Sheffield) > Department of Computer Science (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 31 Aug 2022 07:23 |
Last Modified: | 15 Sep 2022 00:15 |
Published Version: | https://diglib.eg.org/handle/10.2312/2633209 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Eurographics Digital Library |
Refereed: | Yes |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:190001 |