We have been working on Human-Robot Collaboration (HRC) at Kovan Research Laboratory at Middle East Technical University within a government funded project where the goal is to develop an assistant robot to work on the factory floor in collaboration with workers to improve the efficiency of assembly tasks. The duties of the robot are to follow the workflow, keep the workbench clean, and supply the worker with the necessary tools and assembly components when needed.
In addition to the research we are conducting on the industrial aspects of the work which focuses mainly on the workflow efficiency and safety, we have extended our work into the Human-Robot Interaction domain…
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Yunus Terzioglu 