Interaction Design of a Collaborative Furniture Assembly Process

https://abcnews.go.com/US/furniture-building-robot-assembles-ikea-chair-minutes/story?id=54581782

This student project focuses on collaborative furniture assembly to promote ergonomic working conditions. The aim is for humans and robots to form a symbiotic team and communicate by means of visual and auditory signals. At the same time, safety is ensured by sensory monitoring. The versatile assembly robot should adapt ergonomically to the worker by holding and positioning the workpiece ergonomically. Three processes (assembly, disassembly and mechanical processing) and two levels of abstraction (Lego- Duplo and wooden structures with screw connections) are to be experimentally set up and demonstrated. The test stand is used for interaction research between humans and robots in the context of Industry 5.0.

Advisor:

• Sascha Kaden, sascha.kaden@…

Requirements:

• Basic knowledge in robotics.