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A Unified Architecture for Physical and Ergonomic Human–Robot Collaboration

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 June 2019

Federica FerragutiOpen the ORCID record for Federica Ferraguti[Opens in a new window],
Renzo Villa,
Chiara Talignani Landi,
Andrea Maria Zanchettin,
Paolo Rocco and
Cristian Secchi
Federica Ferraguti*
Affiliation:
Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Dipartimento di Scienze e Metodi dell’Ingegneria, via Amendola 2, 42122 - Reggio Emilia, Italy. E-mails: chiara.talignanilandi@unimore.it, cristian.secchi@unimore.it
Renzo Villa
Affiliation:
Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, Piazza L. Da Vinci 32, 20133 - Milano, Italy. E-mails: renzo.villa@polimi.it, andreamaria.zanchettin@polimi.it, paolo.rocco@polimi.it
Chiara Talignani Landi
Affiliation:
Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Dipartimento di Scienze e Metodi dell’Ingegneria, via Amendola 2, 42122 - Reggio Emilia, Italy. E-mails: chiara.talignanilandi@unimore.it, cristian.secchi@unimore.it
Andrea Maria Zanchettin
Affiliation:
Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, Piazza L. Da Vinci 32, 20133 - Milano, Italy. E-mails: renzo.villa@polimi.it, andreamaria.zanchettin@polimi.it, paolo.rocco@polimi.it
Paolo Rocco
Affiliation:
Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, Piazza L. Da Vinci 32, 20133 - Milano, Italy. E-mails: renzo.villa@polimi.it, andreamaria.zanchettin@polimi.it, paolo.rocco@polimi.it
Cristian Secchi
Affiliation:
Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Dipartimento di Scienze e Metodi dell’Ingegneria, via Amendola 2, 42122 - Reggio Emilia, Italy. E-mails: chiara.talignanilandi@unimore.it, cristian.secchi@unimore.it
*
*Corresponding author. E-mail: federica.ferraguti@unimore.it
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Industrial applications that involve working on and moving a heavy load or that constrain the operator to work in uncomfortable positions can take advantage of the assistance of a robotic assistant. In this paper, we propose an architecture for an ergonomic human–robot co-manipulation of objects of various shapes and weight. The object is carried by the robot and, thanks to an ergonomic planner, is positioned in the most comfortable way for the user. Furthermore, thanks to an admittance control with payload compensation, the user can easily adjust the position of the object for working on different parts of it. The proposed architecture is experimentally validated in a robotic cell including an ABB industrial robot.

Keywords

Human–Robot interactionControl of robotic systemsMan–Machine system.

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Robotica , Volume 38 , Issue 4 , April 2020, pp. 669 - 683
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© Cambridge University Press 2019 

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