{"id":397,"date":"2016-01-29T14:41:47","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T14:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clawar.org\/clawar2016\/?page_id=397"},"modified":"2018-11-18T20:05:18","modified_gmt":"2018-11-18T20:05:18","slug":"workshop-on-collaborative-robots-for-industrial-applications","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/clawar.org\/clawar2016\/program\/workshops-tutorials\/workshop-on-collaborative-robots-for-industrial-applications\/","title":{"rendered":"Workshop on Collaborative Robots for Industrial Applications"},"content":{"rendered":"

Outline and Scope<\/strong><\/h4>\n

There is a significant and increasing emphasis on collaborative robot use in manufacturing, ranging from side-by-side human-robot interaction to fully autonomous mobile manipulator assembly application. This workshop is intended to bring together researchers who are studying technologies relevant to this end, including but not limited to mobile manipulators intended for collaborative industrial robot applications. Manufacturing and industry robotic arms are traditionally bolted to floors and within cages as the robots perform their relatively precise tasks, primarily to stay within safety standards for heavy payload industrial robots. As robot arms are liberated from cages and made collaborative by switching to lightweight and low force characteristics they transform into a broader class of tools. Close physical collaboration with the human worker and the potential to create highly customisable, modular and easy to use robots are some of the main outcomes of switching to lightweight robots. Both traditional and collaborative robot arms are being installed onto mobile platforms and automatic guided vehicles to form mobile manipulators for more agile industrial needs in warehouses and manufacturing facilities. An International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2015 workshop on mobile manipulators concluded that \u2018mobile manipulators are one of the key elements for future robotic technologies\u2019. The safety, accuracy, repeatability, and usefulness of these systems for the industrial tasks at hand are however still up for debate, investigation and improvement.<\/p>\n

The objective of this full-day workshop is to open a discussion forum with experts and end-users to share recent developments, challenges, and future research trends in the field. Key-topics from end-user application scenarios are performance of mobile manipulators for use in the automotive industry and large-scale manufacturing operations for shipyards and aeronautics sectors among others.<\/p>\n

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Topics of Interest<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The scope of the workshop includes and is not limited to the following non-exhaustive list of topics:<\/p>\n