Human-robots cooperation through intelligent garment
Abstract
Robots will face a huge deployment in a very near future for people's everyday lives. Main objective is to reduce or eliminate safety and health risks inherent to physically demanding duty or risky work. The present paper focuses on unsafe and hazardous tasks performed by firefighters and aims at proposing organizational and technical tools to balance risk with the involvement of cooperative robots. A study has been conducted within the framework of the regional project SUCRé, dealing with Human-Robots Cooperation in hostile/severe environment. After a short presentation of the project, a Human-Centered Design approach is proposed, based on the implementation of rules defined by the Human-Machine Cooperation principles. Two human aspects have been addressed to design and control cooperation among several firefighters and robots: the cognitive and physiological aspects. A use case presents the implementation of such aspects to manage global and local cooperation.