Flexible programming and orchestration of collaborative robotic manufacturing systems

A flexible programming and orchestration system for human-robot collaborative tasks is proposed. Five different interaction modes are suggested to test two Task-Managers (TMs) acting as orchestrators between a human co-worker and a robot. Both TMs rely on the task-based programming concept providing modular and scalable capabilities, allowing robot code reuse, fast robot programming and high robot programming flexibility. The TMs provide visual...