Cognitive Assistant Supported Human-Robot Collaboration

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Cognitive Assistant Supported Human-Robot Collaboration covers the design and development of cognitive assistants in the smart factory era, its application domains, challenges, and current state of the art in assistance systems with collaborative robotics and IoT technologies, standards, platforms, and solutions. This book also provides a sociotechnical view of collaborative work in human-robot teams, investigating specific methods and techniques to analyze assistance systems. This will provide readers with a comprehensive overview of how cognitive assistants function and work in human-robot teams. - Introduces fundamental concepts of cognitive assistants and human-robot collaboration - Investigates the optimization capabilities of human-cyber physical systems - Discusses planning and implementation of cognitive assistant projects - Explores concepts and design elements of human collaborative workspaces

About the author

Cecilio Angulo received his BSc and MSc degrees in mathematics from the University of Barcelona, and PhD in sciences from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain. He is the founder of the Research Centre on Intelligent Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (IDEAI-UPC) and is currently a full professor of artificial intelligence and robotics at UPC, and President of the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence (ACIA). Dr. Angulo has worked on applications on recommender systems, cognitive social robots, and assistive technologies. He has authored books on machine learning and robots, and published more than 275 papers in international and national journals and conferences. He has led and participated in 40 R&D competitive projects, 15 of them funded by the European Commission.Alejandro Chacón received his MSc degree in automatic control and robotics and PhD degree in Automatic Control, Robotics, and Vision from Universitat Politècnica Catalunya Barcelona Tech, Spain. He is currently a professor and researcher at Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas ESPE, in Ecuador. His research interests include cognitive assistants, industrial internet of things, artificial intelligence, human-centered design, and collaborative robotics.Pere Ponsa received his PhD degree from Universitat Politècnica Catalunya Barcelona Tech, in Spain. He is currently an assistant professor at Barcelona East School of Engineering and member of the Automatic Control Department. He has published more than 150 refereed publications, including conferences, journals, a book, and book chapters. His research interests include automation, smart control systems, human-centred design, and robotics. He is a member of the Smart Control Systems research group, and member of the Human-Computer Interaction Association (AIPO). He served as conference chair of Interacción'15 XVI International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (Vilanova i la Geltrú, Spain).

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