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The Third Hand, Cobots Assisted Precise Assembly

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Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS 2019)

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Collaborative robots (Cobots) are indispensable tools in the factories of the future. Owing to their safety centered design, Cobots are allowed to work side by side with humans, making their use as an assistive third hand appealing for tedious assembly tasks. Consequently, we propose a robot that can be hand-guided to lift and hold parts in place while the human performs assembly tasks. Such functionality reduces the risk to workers (falling components for example), provides precision, allows lifting heavier parts, and increases productivity by allowing human workers to focus on more value-added tasks.

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This research was partially supported by Portugal 2020 project DM4Manufacturing POCI-01-0145-FEDER-016418 by UE/FEDER through the program COMPETE 2020, and the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) SFRH/BD/131091/2017 and COBOTIS (PTDC/EME-EME/32595/2017).

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Mohammad Safeea & Pedro Neto

  2. Arts et Métiers, LISPEN, Lille, France

    Mohammad Safeea & Richard Béarée

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  1. Queen Mary University of London, London, UK

    Kaspar Althoefer

  2. Queen Mary University of London, London, UK

    Jelizaveta Konstantinova

  3. Queen Mary University of London, London, UK

    Ketao Zhang

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Safeea, M., Neto, P., Béarée, R. (2019). The Third Hand, Cobots Assisted Precise Assembly. In: Althoefer, K., Konstantinova, J., Zhang, K. (eds) Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems. TAROS 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11650. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25332-5_39

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