The manufacturing landscape is rapidly evolving, being characterized by the emergence of Industry 5.0, leading to a growing recognition importance human-centered, sustainable and resilient approach. In response these needs, collaborative robotics has emerged as promising solution enhance flexibility in industrial operations, while ensuring higher level safety. Cobots enable human-robot collaboration without need for physical barriers, reduce footprint robotic station, foster closer working...

Manufacturing processes in the shoe industry are still characterized to a large extent by human labour, especially small and medium craft enterprises. Even when machinery is adopted support manufacturing operations, most cases an operator has supervise or carry out task. On other hand, footwear industries called respond continuous challenges face globalization effects, so that rapid adaptability customer needs required. The 4.0 paradigms, which taking place industrial environments, represent...

Collaborative robots (Cobots) are compact machines programmable for a wide variety of tasks and able to ease operators’ working conditions. They can be therefore adopted in small medium enterprises, characterized by production batches multitude different complex tasks. To develop an actual collaborative application, suitable task design interaction strategy between human cobot required. The achievement effective efficient communication is one the milestones approaches, which based on several...

In the recent years, industry has seen introduction of collaborative robots (or "cobots"), designed to interact with human workers in a shared environment. However, involvement cobots industrial applications is still strongly influenced by strategies for non-collaborative robotic cells. The researchers are working frantically find solutions improve interactions between cobot and operator, simplifying communication programming work. This paper proposes task-based algorithm which allows fluid...

Collaborative robots open the way to new applications where industrial currently cannot be used. They are perfect for craft, non-industrial environments or schools, and people who don't know how program robots, like artists, designers, students. A simplified end-user programming of cobots allows a more flexible deployment these machines. Originally, they were developed contain effort, complexity cost robotic solutions, allowing adoption specially by small medium-sized enterprises. However,...

In this paper a robotic solution is introduced to automate the generation of trajectories in contact-based industrial operations, through use 3D stereo depth camera. The camera used detect workpiece features like color, depth, position and orientation, trajectory be followed by tool contact point then generated only based on information. A force sensor guarantee constant between robot end-effector workpiece, adjust possible errors trajectory. system performance, curvilinear non-flat...

One of the major issue concerning coexistence a human being and robot is interaction between high stiffness object softer body part, especially if impact characterized by energy transmission. Expected or fortuitous collisions can be either managed using control strategies mechanical elements such as SEA (Serial Elastic Actuators) VSA (Variable Stiffness Actuators). This article deals with design an original prototype Continuous Rotation Variable Actuator (CR-VSA). The solution proposed made...