ROBO-PARTNER Human Robot Cooperative Task Planner

Task Planning is a key concept for achieving Human Robot collaboration and ensuring highly efficient production execution in terms of cost and time¹. The disadvantages of the current proposed approaches² lies in their lack of using efficient heuristics and multi criteria based task assignments. With respect to the commercial simulation tools used for planning^{3, 4, 5, 6} need to be entered manually as input making the modelling process highly consuming.

ROBO-PARTNER project develops robust methods and software tools for determining the optimal planning of assembly/ disassembly operations. In more details, such tools will be used for:

• The extraction of assembly tasks
• The generation of all the feasible alternative plans through intelligent search algorithms.
• The evaluation of these plans using multi – criteria decision making tool as well as 3D simulation will be used.

Ergonomics, resource utilization and safety will be the prevailing criteria in order to design the hybrid solutions. Last but not least, operator support will be provided through advanced Augmented Reality technology, such as:

• visualization of human worker safety zones
• visualization of robot’s trajectory
• provision of production and assembly process information
• provision of warnings and alarms etc.

ROBO-PARTNER Human Robot Cooperative Task Planner