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Human-centred Assembly: A Case Study for an Anthropocentric Cyber-physical System

Harish ChakravarthyConstantin-bala ZamfirescuBogdan-constantin PîrvuDominic Gorecky

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EngineeringCyber-Physical SystemsAugmented RealityWorkstationbusiness.industryCyber-physical systemVirtual RealityAutomationlaw.inventionAnthropocentrismHuman–computer interactionlawHybrid systemHuman-Maschine InteractionGeneral Earth and Planetary SciencesFactory (object-oriented programming)Augmented realitybusinessReference modelGeneral Environmental Science

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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.

10.1016/j.protcy.2014.09.038http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.protcy.2014.09.038