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Call for papers<br>
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<font size="+1"><b>Special session: Safe Human-Robot
Cooperation and Collaboration in manufacturing
environments</b></font><br>
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31th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human
Interactive Communication (IEEE RO-MAN 2022)<br>
29/8-2/9 2022 Naples, Italy<br>
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<b>Submission deadline: <font color="#ff2600">15th of March
2022</font></b><b><br>
</b><b>Special session code: <font color="#ff2600">n17r1</font></b><br>
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Motivation and goals<br>
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The Fourth Industrial Revolution (or most commonly termed
‘Industry 4.0’) comprises the ongoing insurrectionary
transition of conventional manufacturing/industrial pipelines
towards significantly more automatized and data-driven ones,
making extensive use of emerging and advanced technologies,
like the Internet of things (IoT), Big Data analytics, smart
sensors, advanced human-machine interfaces, etc. Inevitably,
robots constitute an integral ingredient of this process,
since they can boost: a) the increase in the levels of
automation, b) the tighter connection of the physical and the
digital world, c) the shifting from a central control system
to a smart decentralized one, d) the implementation of
closed-loop data models and control systems, and e) the
personalization/customization of products and processes. This
in turn raises the need for more efficient and effective
human-robot cooperative (humans and robots work alternately on
different tasks within a process in the same workspace) and
collaborative (humans and robots interact in a shared
workspace, e.g. working on the same workpiece) schemes.
Indeed, humans and robots already work together in production
nowadays (with distinct roles and usually in an isolated way
though), where robots are reliably shown to support and
relieve human operators, to enable versatile automation steps
and to increase productivity. The purpose of this special
session is to explore how cooperation and collaboration among
humans and robots can work in a safe and acceptable way
fostering their integration in real contexts. The special
session will focus on any application area with a specific
attention to industrial scenarios, one of the most promising
application areas for collaborative robots (or cobots). The
contribution should present solution to robustly address
current challenges in manufacturing (e.g. to handle
fine-grained, customizable, flexible, sophisticated and
sensitive tasks, to combine human capabilities with the
efficiency and precision of machines, etc.), to realize safe
human-robot interaction, collaboration and communication
capabilities.<br>
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This special session focuses on critical challenges for cobots
that remain to be addressed in order to enable their effective
and sustainable deployment in real-world operational settings,
including, among others, the following main aspects: a) Safe
interaction, including safety standards and collaborative
operating modes, respecting and predicting the human
co-worker’s space, b) Intuitive interfaces, including
programming approaches, input modes and reality enhancement,
and c) Design methods, including task planning and allocation,
control laws and sensors. Addressing the latter constitutes a
prerequisite for reaching successful Human-Robot Collaboration
(HRC) schemes, which will in turn provide a promising way to
achieve increases in productivity while decreasing production
costs, based on the combination of the human ability to judge,
react and plan with the repeatability and strength of a robot.<br>
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Expected contributions<br>
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Papers to be presented in the special session cover topics
related, but not limited, to: <br>
- Large-scale multi-agent human-robot collaborative learning<br>
- Learning from (human) demonstration<br>
- Advanced AI technologies in HRC<br>
- Deployment of robotic systems in manufacturing environments<br>
- Safety issues in HRC<br>
- Collaborative task assignment and planning in HRC<br>
- New functions for enriching Robotics Standards<br>
- Human detection, tracking and proximity sensing in HRC<br>
- Human-aware Task and Motion planning in realistic
environments<br>
- Human activity modeling and prediction in HRC<br>
- Communication and coordination between human and robot<br>
- Tactile sensing and physical human robot interaction<br>
- Multi-modal interaction/interfaces in HRC<br>
- Failure detection and recovery in HRC control systems<br>
- Human factors analysis in HRC<br>
- Trust in HRC schemes<br>
- Evaluation methods for HRC workplaces and process
(productivity, flexibility etc.)<br>
- Cognitive architectures for human-robot collaboration and
learning<br>
- Ergonomics of HRC (Physical, Intensity of signals, alarms,
visual field etc.)<br>
- Semantic mapping in HRC environments<br>
- Benchmarking and evaluating performance for HRC<br>
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Important dates<br>
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Paper submission deadline: March 15, 2022<br>
Notification of Acceptance: May 30, 2022<br>
Camera-ready Submission: June 15, 2022<br>
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Organizers<br>
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Dr.-Ing. Mohamad Bdiwi, Fraunhofer Institute for machine tools
and forming technology, Chemnitz, Germany<br>
Mr. Marco Faroni, Institute of Intelligent Industrial
Technologies and Systems for Advanced Manufacturing
(STIIMA-CNR), Milan, Italy<br>
Dr. AndreA Orlandini, Institute of Cognitive Science and
Technology (CNR-ISTC), Rome, Italy<br>
Dr. Georgios Th. Papadopoulos, Institute of Computer Science,
Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (ICS-FORTH),
Greece<br>
Dr. Dirk Wollherr, Technical University of Munich, Germany<br>
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