Selection Criteria for Deployment of Collaborative Robots

Zhao, Fangle; Tamariz, Jose; Diakides, Nikolaos; Yanes Gorbea, Francisco

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Selection Criteria for Deployment of Collaborative Robots

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The global market of Collaborative Robots has been growing in the past years, resulting in new and creative applications that fall outside of the typical manufacturing applications. Even though newer generations of Collaborative Robots have been able to thrive in many applications and processes, there are still scenarios in which Collaborative Robots underperform. The objective of this project is to create a set of criteria for users to determine whether a process can be efficiently performed by a Collaborative Robot based on its limitations. The rationale for this project is to implement new applications for collaborative robots as the industry has struggled to increase market share outside of the industrial sector. The state of the art of Collaborative Robots has been mostly present in manufacturing processes and applications due to their ability to perform repetitive tasks with consistency and precision. The methods used involved data gathering through interviews and surveys with experts across various fields, and testing of a collaborative robot. The results show our data and analysis to create the set of criteria. The conclusions are that establishing a set of criteria for Collaborative Robots applications will help individuals determine if an application is appropriate for a Collaborative Robot to perform, resulting in an expansion and diversification of the current market for Collaborative Robots.

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