An Interactive Workplace for Improving Human Robot Collaboration: Sketch Workpiece Interface for Fast Teaching (SWIFT)

Ubiquitous computing refers to the concept of integrating computers and technology into everyday objects and environments,
making them constantly available and seamlessly interconnected.
In recent times, there has been a growing adoption of the concept in
industrial settings as well. This contribution targets the replacement
of an industrial manual repair process through a robotic solution.
The focus of this work is on the novel interface utilizing a digital
pen and spatial augmented reality, which mimics the original job
preparation process but ubiquitously enables automated robot programming. This shifts the work of the human from a dull, dirty and
dangerous process to the cognitively more demanding part of inspection and process strategy definition, whereas the robot is used
as a dexterous and tenacious intelligent process tool to perform the
surface processing operation itself.