Roy Someshwar
Papers
6
Total Citations
71
H-Index
5
About
Roy Someshwar is a pioneering researcher in human-robot collaboration, with a primary focus on synchronization, coordination, and joint-action dynamics in industrial settings. His work bridges cognitive ergonomics and robotics, exploring how timing, waiting, and role perception affect fluency between humans and machines. Someshwar’s most influential contribution—his 2018 paper on joint-action in short-cycle repetitive handover tasks (31 citations)—reveals that givers and receivers perceive handover tasks differently, a finding with profound implications for collaborative system design. This work, supported by field studies in supermarkets and lab experiments, demonstrates his commitment to real-world applicability. His earlier analytical model for optimizing waiting time in human-robot coordination (2013, 13 citations) and his models for synchronization (2012, 9 and 8 citations) provide foundational frameworks for reducing idle time and improving task efficiency. Someshwar’s research has been recognized for its practical impact, notably in a 2017 study evaluating collaboration models for fluent industrial assembly tasks. With a career spanning over a decade, he continues to shape how robots are designed to work seamlessly alongside humans, making his work essential reading for engineers and researchers in collaborative robotics.
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- 2Optimization of Waiting Time in H-R Coordination13 citations · 2013
- 3Models and Methods for H-R Synchronization9 citations · 2012
- 4A Timing Control Model for H-R Synchronization8 citations · 2012
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