This course will describe how modern robotics technologies can be introduced into smart factory environments. In particular, we will describe how robots can cooperate with human operators and among each other, in an industrial context.
More specifically, we will describe real world cases in which multiple robots are simultaneously utilized, and we will see how they can coordinate themselves to achieve some common objective. Subsequently, we will see how interface systems can be developed to allow human operators to interact with those robots. Finally, we will describe methodologies for enabling physical human-robot interaction.