A Hierarchical Finite-State Machine-Based Task Allocation Framework for Human-Robot Collaborative Assembly Tasks

Ilias El Makrini,Mohsen Omidi,Fabio Fusaro,Edoardo Lamon,Arash Ajoudani,Bram Vandcrborght,Ilias El Makrini,Mohsen Omidi,Fabio Fusaro,Edoardo Lamon,Arash Ajoudani,Bram Vandcrborght

Work-related musculoskeletal disorders (MSD) are one of the major cause of injuries and absenteeism at work. These lead to important cost in the manufacturing industry. Human-robot collaboration can help decreasing this issue by appropriately distributing the tasks and decreasing the workload of the factory worker. This paper proposes a novel generic task allocation approach based on hierarchical ...