Dynamic Duos: Human-Robot Co-Worker Adaptation in Manufacturing

Outline

Today’s collaborative robots primarily coexist with their human coworkers rather than interactively collaborating on tasks with mutual dependencies. This implies a huge yet untapped potential for applications of collaborative robots. Actual collaboration provides the opportunity to increase productivity and to reduce mental and physical workload for human workers. At the same time, such collaborations come with challenges such as the need for mutual adaptation. Robots need to be enabled to adapt to the characteristics and states of the human while the human operator is required to learn to effectively collaborate with an adaptive robot. 

The RoCoAdapt workshop will facilitate interdisciplinary research on human-aware robotics in the context of manufacturing or similar domains. The full-day workshop will bring together researchers focusing on industrial scenarios, human-robot interaction, organizational psychology, and related fields in AI. We will focus on the technological capabilities and challenges for human-robot collaboration beyond sharing work spaces. 

At the workshop, recent progress in human-aware robotics will be discussed. Selected keynote speakers will address the topic from different perspectives and facilitate a joint discussion inspiring and triggering new interdisciplinary research collaborations. Selected contributions will be invited for a special issue at an established journal to increase the outreach of the workshop.

Keynote Speakers

Tentative Schedule

•     9:00 -    9:15 Walk in & Networking 

•    9:15 -     930 Welcome, Introduction

•    9:30 -  10:15 Dimitris Chrysostomou:
  Lessons learned from implementing human-robot collaborations in industrial environments 

• 10:15 - 10:30 Coffee break 

• 10:30 - 11:15 Rune Søe-Knudsen:
  Robot adoption challenges

• 11:15 - 12:00 Anna-Sophie Ulfert-Blank:
  Would you trust an AI colleague? Disentangling trust in human-AI collaboration

• 12:00 - 13:30 Lunch & networking

• 13:30 - 14:00 Bernd Kiefer:
  Effective and Secure Interactions with Cobots 

• 14:00 - 15:00 Contributed presentations & discussion
  
  Luca Morando and Giuseppe Loianno:
  Spatial Assisted Human-Drone Collaborative Navigation and Interaction through Immersive Mixed Reality & Discussion

Marco Faroni, Christian Cella, Andrea M. Zanchettin, and Paolo Rocco:
Safety-aware decision making for collaborative robotics: An integrated approach

Emilia Pietras et al.
Toward Adaptive Robot Behavior for Interdependent Human-Robot Teams

• 15:00 - 15:20 Coffee Break

• 15:20 - 16:00 Johanna Seibt:
  Forms of Co-Working with Robots 

• 16:00 -17:00 Contributed presentations & Discussion

Raquel Salcedo Gil, Anna-Sophie Ulfert-Blank, Pascale Le Blanc, Sonja Rispens
Are you ready to work with robots? A human-centered training intervention for increasing robot use self-efficacy and attitudes toward robot

Merve Alabak
Deviant work behaviors in human-robot collaboration

RoCoAdapt Organizers