Creating an Active Awareness System for Humans in Robotic Workcell

Abstract

This article is devoted to the problem of human's security and safety at the time of any interaction with robots. We already discussed robot system reliability in the previous paper (1), now we emphasize the role of attention and human awareness with respect to the robot's performance in vicinity. We analyzed human's cognitive and physical abilities in ambient environment perception with the aim at effective warning system implementation. We introduced warning system interface on the basis of vibrotactile cuing, proposed an algorithm for robot controller and interface that impart tactile and visual information to human basing on data acquired from external sensory unit.