The pursuit of higher productivity and factory profits has led to the development of collaborative robots. Collaborative robots are compared to industrial robots designed for work with humans and are more safe. This allows sharing of same workspace with humans without safety barriers. Collaborative robots have only begun to gain ground in recent years, that is why the area of perceived safety and acceptability is needed to be researched.
In our thesis we prepared a simulation environment for experiments to assess the perceived safety of collaborative robots. The second chapter describes hardware and software we used in our thesis. The third chapter describes the methodology of the work. In this section, we described the design of a measurement protocol. In the RoboDK simulation environment, we simulated the movements with the UR5e robot and connected the Oculus Quest VR glasses with the RoboDK program. Next, we prepared a graphic interface with a questionnaire for the experiment. In the last chapter, we described the protocol of the experiment, with which we analyzed the perception of safety from the test person’s viewpoint. At the end of the section we presented the results and findings. The results show that type of tool robot uses has the most effect on the response of the person. Lesser effect has the velocity at which the robot moves. However, the type robot moves has almost no effect on person’s response.
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