Abstract: Human-Robot Collaboration (HRC) in industry is a promising research direction that has potential to expand robotics to previously unthinkable application areas. Orchestration of large hybrid human-robot teams carrying out many tasks in parallel within a shop floor faces new challenges due to unique aspects introduced by HRC. This paper presents a new approach to topological and temporal orchestration of hybrid human-robot workforce, considering the capabilities of robot agents as well as the potentially new roles that human operators may acquir...
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Topics: 
Artificial intelligence
Distributed computing
Human–computer interaction