SmartKit: an Architecture for Modelling Complex Industrial Tasks

The interest in collaborative robotics applications keeps increasing with the advancing of the years. Such growth is due to the robot's flexibility in the production line and to the interactions that may happen with the human partner. However, human-robot collaboration is far from being adopted in practice, especially for complex industrial applications such as assembly tasks. This work formalises an architecture that models human and robot workflows and synchronises their activities, spots errors during the human task execution, and notifies the operator that something unexpected happened. The system has then been tested in an industrial collaborative assembly operation.