Preface for the special issue on robotics in smart manufacturing
Preface for the special issue on robotics in smart manufacturing
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DOI：
10.1007/s00170-014-6028-8
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2016-07
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P. Neto;A. Moreira
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作者：
P. Neto;A. Moreira
今天，制造业也许比以往任何时候都更被社会视为促进经济增长和创造就业机会的主要手段。在当前全球市场的背景下，制造企业需要有竞争力才能生存，即生产更多、更好、更便宜、以客户为导向。与此同时，这些公司，通常是中小型企业（SME），必须灵活地在适当的时间对市场需求做出反应。工业机器人是柔性制造的关键要素，因为它们可以编程和重新编程，以在不同的环境中执行不同的任务。然而，与机器人互动并将其集成到制造单元中并不容易。机器人编程仍然是一项非直观的任务，需要机器人编程和制造过程中的技术技能。然而，工业机器人越来越多地用于各种传统和非传统制造工艺。事实上，最近在人机交互、机器人自主性、人机协同工作和机器人交互方面的进展已经导致越来越多的机器人出现在自主和智能制造系统中。这些都不是由法令或重建科幻小说的目的。相反，它们的出现是由于全球市场对更便宜、多样化和质量更好的产品的需求。
Today, perhaps more than ever, manufacturing industry is seen by society as a major means of generating economic growth and jobs creation. In the current context of the global market, manufacturing companies need to be competitive to survive, ie, produce more, better, cheaper, and customer-oriented. At the same time, these companies, usually small-and mediumsized enterprises (SMEs), have to be flexible to react to market demands in appropriate time.Industrial robots are key elements in flexible manufacturing as they can be programmed and re-programmed to perform different tasks in different environments. However, it is not easy to interact with robots and integrate them in manufacturing cells. Robot programming is still a non-intuitive task that requires technical skills in robot programming and in the manufacturing process being applied. Nevertheless, industrial robots are increasingly being used in diverse traditional and non-traditional manufacturing processes. In fact, recent advances in human-robot interaction, robot autonomy, humanrobot co-working, and robot-robot interaction have led to the emergence of more and more robots operating in autonomous and smart manufacturing systems. These are not created by decree or with the purpose of recreating science fiction. On the contrary, they emerged due to the global market demands for cheaper, diversified, and better-quality products.