Evaluation of Mental Stress caused by Cooperative Support of Robots in Cell Production Assembly Systems

Abstract

In Human-Robots collaborative assembly system, human workers have high mental work load induced by robot. However, this mental work load is not cleared enough. In this study, in order to evaluate mental work load induced by robot in Human-Robots collaborative assembly system, we detect the emotional sweating rates for physiological index and use the semantic differential method for subjective index. As the result, relationship between the motion of robots and mental work load was cleared by this experience.