Integrated process planning and resource allocation for collaborative robot workplace design

The design of human-robot-collaborative workplaces is a challenging task, whose outcome is highly dependent on the assembly planners knowledge and experience, as usually only a small fraction of the design space is considered. This often results in unappropriated workplace designs with process-related and economical drawbacks. This paper outlines an approach to a collaborative workplace design tool-chain considering different strengths of robot and human, starting from assembly group CAD model data input to an ontology based resource allocation and permutations on workplace design proposals. All steps are connected by the open exchange data format of AutomationML.