Publications

Characterising CSCW Research on Human-Robot Collaboration

Human-Robot Collaboration (HRC) is an increasingly prominent topic in CSCW. From telepresence systems through field robots for extreme missions to soc...

Out of Place Robot in the Wild: Envisioning Urban Robot Contextual Adaptability Challenges Through a Design Probe

The increasing deployment of robots in urban spaces calls for design strategies to ensure their adaptation and to mitigate potential disruptions to co...

A matrix-based approach to step-wise assess the safety of collaborative robots in manufacturing

Collaborative robots (cobots) allow for flexible manufacturing, supporting more customised product designs. Although safety is key for socio-technical...

Interactive Distance Field Mapping and Planning to Enable Human-Robot Collaboration

Human-robot collaborative applications require scene representations that are kept up-to-date and facilitate safe motions in dynamic scenes. In this l...

Bridging Ethnography and Design in HRI: Making Space for Diverging Perspectives

Ethnography and design go hand in hand in human-centered research. However, while design is receiving increasing interest within the Human-Robot Inter...

What Affects Human Decision Making in Human–Robot Collaboration?: A Scoping Review

The advent of Industry 4.0 has heralded advancements in Human–robot Collaboration (HRC), necessitating a deeper understanding of the factors influen...

Force Controlled Robotic Surface Finishing with Variable Tool Centre Point (TCP)

Written by Barış Balcı Balci, PhD researcher from QUT funded through the IMCRC and the Australian Cobotics Centre. IEEE Robotics and Automation S...

Optimal Workpiece Placement Based on Robot Reach, Manipulability and Joint Torques

Workpiece placement with respect to an industrial robot plays an important role in robotic manufacturing due to its influence on the configuration-dep...

When is a robot a cobot? Moving beyond manufacturing and arm-based cobot manipulators

Collaborative robots (“cobots”) have attracted growing attention in academia and industry over the last years. Due to in-built safety feat...

Mapping Socio-Technical Dependencies to Enable the Successful Adoption of Collaborative Robots in Industry

Preliminary Analysis of a Redundancy Resolution Method for Mobile Manipulators used in Physical Human Robot Interaction

Adding mobility to a manipulator significantly increases its reachable workspace, allowing it to perform a wider variety of tasks. However, this advan...

It’s Coming Home Down Under – The Potential of Digital Work to Overcome Australia’s Challenges in Reshoring Manufacturing

Over the past decades, the world has seen a continuous increase of globalisation and interconnectedness – in part supported by advances in digital c...

Cobots and decent work

The use of cobots (collaborative robots) is expanding in industrial settings. Differing from traditional robots by requiring close human proximity and...

Illustrating Robot Movements

In efforts to disseminate research on human-robot interaction, many researchers use illustrations in the form of sketches, photographs, and 3D models ...

Guidelines for Safe Collaborative Robot Design and Implementation

This document provides an overview of the comprehensive guidelines. It describes relevant definitions of working with collaborative robots, summarises...

Advancing Manufacturing Case Studies

To inform a review of progress against the priority action areas (PAAs) outlined in Advancing Manufacturing Skills: A Skills, Training and Workforce D...

Towards human–robot collaboration in construction: current cobot trends and forecasts

Collaborative robots, or cobots, provide opportunities for their use in a range of complex scenarios in different industries, including construction. ...

Management capabilities for the transition to Industry 4.0: an advanced manufacturing SME case study

Management capabilities for the transition to Industry 4.0: an advanced manufacturing SME case study. Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management...

A Novel Passive Grasping Robot Control Framework Towards Vision-Based Industrial Steel Bar Conveyor Removal

In the steel bar manufacturing industry bars of shorter length are occasionally produced that do not match the required batch length. Currently human ...

A Life-Cycle Framework to Manage Collaboration and Knowledge Exchange in Open Organisations

Successful research and development requires interdisciplinary collaboration, often across organisational boundaries and for extended timeframes, such...

“Cobots” and manufacturing: A bibliometric study

This article provides a bibliometric overview of scholarly work published in collaborative robotics, often known as “Cobots” in recent decades. Th...

Empowering People in Human-Robot Collaboration: Bringing Together and Synthesising Perspectives Workshop

The workshop brought together academic researchers and industry practitioners representing multiple disciplines of Human-Computer Interaction, Robotic...

Special issue on human robot collaboration – Construction Robotics

The fourth industrial revolution is defined by advancing robotics, increasing automation in manufacturing, ubiquitous computing, internet of things, a...

Hybrid Digital Crafts With Collaborative Robotics

Bespoke manufacturers that fabricate for architecture and design rely on skill artisans such as patternmakers to remain profitable. Collaborative robo...

Employing AR/MR Mockups to Imagine Future Custom Manufacturing Practices

Versatile augmented reality (AR)/mixed reality (MR) technologies align with custom manufacturers’ resource constraints and support their requirement...

Beyond Pure Technology – The Cognitive and Organisational Impacts of Cobots

Work environments are radically changing with the adoption of new technologies. As the trend for automation grows collaborative robots or “cobots”...

Cobots and Decent Work

The use of cobots (collaborative robots) is expanding in industrial settings. Differing from traditional robots by requiring close human proximity and...