Individual Situation Awareness to be set free from the Collaborative Robot

Nicole Berx, Arie Adriaensen, Wilm Decré, Liliane Pintelon

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Abstract

Human Factors (HF) is the scientific discipline concerned with the understanding of interactions among human and other elements of a system with the aim to optimize system performance. One important concept within HF is Situation Awareness (SA). Since the early 1990s, the original models of individual SA have been complemented by additional models of shared and distributed SA. Although SA has already been the subject of investigation in many complex socio-technical systems, there is not a great body of scientific work on SA in relation to collaborative robots (cobots). This paper explains and reviews the most relevant models and evolutions in SA thinking and examines to which extent the concept of SA, and more particularly Distributed Situation Awareness (DSA), can be applied to cobots. Individual models of cobot SA to detect human presence and predict future human activity from a cobot-centered perspective are technologically feasible and are currently applied in industrial applications. We defend that the SA within the cobot has to be of a higher order than the level of the individual human or technological agent, and needs to be ‘set free’ in order to not only be shared with human team members, but also to understand how SA is distributed throughout the system as a whole. This paper proposes to inform future cobot design with DSA analysis from a socio-technical perspective.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 31st European Safety and Reliability Conference, ESREL 2021
EditorsBruno Castanier, Marko Cepin, David Bigaud, Christophe Berenguer
PublisherResearch Publishing
Pages3417-3424
Number of pages8
ISBN (Print)9789811820168
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021
Externally publishedYes
Event31st European Safety and Reliability Conference, ESREL 2021 - Angers, France
Duration: 19 Sept 202123 Sept 2021

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 31st European Safety and Reliability Conference, ESREL 2021

Conference

Conference31st European Safety and Reliability Conference, ESREL 2021
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityAngers
Period19/09/2123/09/21

Keywords

  • Cobot
  • Collaborative Robot
  • Distributed Situation Awareness
  • Human Factors
  • Human-Robot Collaboration
  • Situation Awareness

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