Concept and Exemplary Realization of Human Hybrid Robot for Supporting Manual Assembly Tasks

Abstract

Especially for production of unique and small scale series, manual tasks have special significance. The quality hereby depends highly on the employee. In consequence of i.a. the demographic change and the associated increased diversification of the employees skills and abilities, the companies have the challenge to find appropriate staff. Technical systems can be supporting manual tasks to fulfill the production requirements. This paper introduces a new approach (Human Hybrid Robot – HHR) and includes first passive and active implementations. Thereby human and technical elements are combined in a system to take advantage of the individual abilities.