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Human–Machine Interfaces to NX100 Controller for Motoman HP3L Robot in Educational Environment

2022; Springer Science+Business Media; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-3-031-03884-6_3

1865-0937

João P. Ferreira, I. Simões, A. Paulo Coimbra, Manuel Crisóstomo,

Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization

With the increasing use of robots, industrial environments have changed. Industrial robots can perform heavy and repetitive tasks at high speed and precision. They are usually programmed to perform one or more specific tasks. Errors, alerts messages, restarts, indefinite stops with the need for someone to reset to the initial settings are some of the problems encountered when using robots. Because man and robot coexist in the same space, it is relevant to improve how they do relate, how they do communicate, and how they interact each other. The present educational project is devoted to the human–robot interaction with the development and evaluation of interfaces to an industrial robot. It was developed in the context of a Master Electrical Engineering Dissertation. The robot used was a Motoman HP3L with an NX100 controller through RS232 communication. The developed interfaces consist in different combination of hardware and software like buttons, wired communication, use of a mobile phone and Bluetooth communication. One of the developed interfaces applies to both the real and a virtual robot. These interfaces were evaluated through the application of Usability Tests in order to compare and draw conclusions about the different interfaces and robot programming systems under study.