Human-Robot Collaboration In Smart Warehouses

Safety is of critical concern in human-robot collaboration. A human-in-the-loop experiment was conducted to assess the performance of the customized robot control scheme in a smart warehouse setting, where the human participants performed order picking and assembly tasks, and the mobile robot performed simulated pallet moving tasks.

In this project, I applied a 2D navigation framework on the Freight Base Robot for driving the robot safely and reliably with human operatiors present in close quarters.

Related paper:

1. Chen, Yuhao, Chizhao Yang, Bowen Song, Nicholas Gonzalez, Yu Gu, and Boyi Hu, “Effects of Autonomous Mobile Robots on Human Mental Workload and System Productivity in Smart Warehouses: A Preliminary Study,” Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES), 2020, Accepted.