Zhihao Liu

Wuhan University of Technology | WHUT · School of Information Engineering

Robotic equipment has been playing a central role since the proposal of smart manufacturing. Since the beginning of the first integration of industrial robots into production lines, industrial robots have enhanced productivity and relieved humans from heavy workloads significantly. Towards the next generation of manufacturing, this review first int...

Due to the boost of machine learning research in recent years, advanced technologies bring new possibilities to robotic assembly systems. The machine learning-based image processing methods show promising potential to tackle the challenges in the assembly process, e.g. object recognition, locating and trajectory planning. Accurate and robust method...

Human-robot collaboration as a multidisciplinary research topic is still pursuing the robots’ enhanced intelligence to be more human-compatible and fit the dynamic and stochastic characteristics of human. However, the uncertainties brought by the human partner challenge the task-planning and decision-making of the robot. When aiming at industrial t...

Aiming at human-robot collaboration in manufacturing, the operator's safety is the primary issue during the manufacturing operations. This paper presents a deep reinforcement learning approach to realize the real-time collision-free motion planning of an industrial robot for human-robot collaboration. Firstly, the safe human-robot collaboration man...

Remanufacturing helps to improve the resource utilization rate and reduce the manufacturing cost. Disassembly is a key step of remanufacturing and is always finished by either manual labor or robots. Manual disassembly has low efficiency and high labor cost while robotic disassembly is not flexible enough to handle complex disassembly tasks. Theref...

To enhance flexibility and sustainability, human-robot collaboration is becoming a major feature of next-generation robots. The safety assessment strategy is the first and crucial issue that needs to be considered due to the removal of the safety barrier. This paper determined the set of safety indicators and established an assessment model based o...

The digital twin-based manufacturing system is a typical representative of smart manufacturing and has a number of advantages beyond the state of the art. However, when a manufacturing system needs to be reconfigured to meet new requirements of production, manual reconfiguration is time-consuming and high labor cost because of the complexity of the...

Industrial robots can be mechanical intelligent agents by integrating programs, intelligent algorithms and facilitating intelligent manufacturing models from cyber world into physical entities. After introducing the concept of cloud, their storage, computing, knowledge sharing and evolution capabilities are further strengthened. Digital twin is an...

Sustainable manufacturing is a global front-burner issue oriented to the sustainable development of humanity and society. In this context, this paper takes the human-robot collaborative disassembly (HRCD) as the topic on its contribution to economic, environmental and social sustainability. In addition, a detailed enabling systematic implementation...

Traditional disassembly methods, such as manual and robotic disassembly, are no longer competent for the requirement of the complexity of the disassembly product. Therefore, the human-robot collaboration concept can be introduced to realize a novel disassembly system, towards increasing the flexibility and adaptability of them. In order to facilita...

The interest of human-robot collaboration (HRC) for intelligent manufacturing service system is gradually increasing. Fluent human-robot coexistence in manufacturing requires accurate estimation of the human motion intention so that the efficiency and safety of HRC can be guaranteed. Human motion is mainly defined as the sequential positions of the...

The emergence of digital twin enables real-time interaction and integration between the physical world and the information world. Digital twin-based manufacturing systems, as a typical representative of smart manufacturing, have a set of advantages beyond the traditional ones, such as verifying and predicting the manufacturing system performance ba...

Industrial Cloud Robotics (ICR), with the characteristics of resource sharing, lower cost and convenient access, etc., can realize the knowledge interaction and coordination among cloud Robotics (CR) through the knowledge sharing mechanism. However, the current researches mainly focus on the knowledge sharing of service-oriented robots and the know...

Human-robot collaborative manufacturing (HRC-Mfg) is an innovative production mode, however currently the theoretical explanation for the collaboration mechanisms is limited. Considering the dynamics and uncertainties in manufacturing environment, it is also crucial for both task allocation and decision-making. In the sight of cyber-physical produc...

Industrial robots have been becoming the one of focus among all manufacturing equipments. However, under many existing producing environments, robots are not able to fully replace human operators. The study of high-efficiency human-robot collaborative manufacturing, thus, has been increasingly important. In this context, this paper presents a multi...