An Interactive Workplace for Improving Human Robot Collaboration: Sketch Workpiece Interface for Fast Teaching (SWIFT).

Abstract

Ubiquitous computing refers to the concept of integrating computers and technology into everyday objects and environments, making them constantly available and seamlessly interconnected. In recent times, there has been a growing adoption of the concept in industrial settings as well. This contribution targets the replacement of an industrial manual repair process through a robotic solution. The focus of this work is on the novel interface utilizing a digital pen and spatial augmented reality, which mimics the original job preparation process but ubiquitously enables automated robot programming. This shifts the work of the human from a dull, dirty and dangerous process to the cognitively more demanding part of inspection and process strategy definition, whereas the robot is used as a dexterous and tenacious intelligent process tool to perform the surface processing operation itself.