2024 journal article

Factors Affecting Workers’ Mental Stress in Handover Activities During Human–Robot Collaboration

Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.

By: L. Lu  n, Z. Xie  n, H. Wang  n, B. Su  n, S. Jung  n & X. Xu n 

TL;DR: The mental stress of workers during HRC is lower when the robot's end effector approaches a worker within the worker's field of view, approaches at a lower speed, or follows a constrained trajectory. (via Semantic Scholar)
Source: ORCID
Added: January 13, 2024

Objective This study investigated the effects of different approach directions, movement speeds, and trajectories of a co-robot’s end-effector on workers’ mental stress during handover tasks.