Human Centered Assembly: a case study for an anthropocentric cyber-physical system

Human Centered Assembly: a case study for an anthropocentric cyber-physical system
Bala-Constantin Zamfirescu, Bogdan-Constantin Pîrvu, Dominic Gorecky, Harish Kumar Chakravarthy
Procedia Technology International Conference on System-integrated Intelligence (SysInt-2014), New Challenges for Product and Production Engineering, July 2-4, Bremen, Germany

Abstract:

To engineer the factory of the future the paper argues for an anthropocentric cyber-physical reference model that assimilate in an integrated, dynamic, structural and functional way all the required components (i.e. physical, computational and human) of a synthetic hybrid system. This is due to the real need to design large-scale complex systems that accommodate the latest achievements in factory automation where the human is not merely playing a simple and clear role inside the control-loop, but is becoming a composite factor in a highly automated system ("man-in-the-mesh"). The concept is demonstrated by instantiating our anthropocentric cyber-physical reference model in a concrete case study, dealing with the cognition augmentation of the human operator in a manual assembly workstation.

Keywords:

Cyber-Physical Systems, Human-Maschine Interaction, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality