This paper presents a novel pick-by-haptics approach to assist workers in manual picking in warehouses. The idea is to equip the worker with a wearable system composed by a vibromotor, a Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) reader and a microcontroller, all placed on the user’s forearm, and exploit it to reveal the correct locations of the items to pick. The system results very intuitive to use as proved by a user study involving 13 subjects that simulated the picking of a list of items. Moreover, the structural setup of the warehouse necessary to implement the pick-by-haptics approach resulted very quick and costly efficient if compared with the current state of the art solutions for workers assistance. The work was motivated by a collaboration with a company that produces controllers for automated plants. The next step of this research will be an experimental campaign in the real warehouse.
Franco, L., Lisini Baldi, T., Prattichizzo, D., Salvietti, G. (2024). A Wearable Pick-By-Haptics System to Improve Manual-Picking Tasks in Warehouses. In 2024 IEEE Haptics Symposium (HAPTICS) (pp.259-263). New York : IEEE [10.1109/haptics59260.2024.10520847].
A Wearable Pick-By-Haptics System to Improve Manual-Picking Tasks in Warehouses
Franco, Leonardo;Lisini Baldi, Tommaso;Prattichizzo, Domenico;Salvietti, Gionata
2024-01-01
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This paper presents a novel pick-by-haptics approach to assist workers in manual picking in warehouses. The idea is to equip the worker with a wearable system composed by a vibromotor, a Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) reader and a microcontroller, all placed on the user’s forearm, and exploit it to reveal the correct locations of the items to pick. The system results very intuitive to use as proved by a user study involving 13 subjects that simulated the picking of a list of items. Moreover, the structural setup of the warehouse necessary to implement the pick-by-haptics approach resulted very quick and costly efficient if compared with the current state of the art solutions for workers assistance. The work was motivated by a collaboration with a company that produces controllers for automated plants. The next step of this research will be an experimental campaign in the real warehouse.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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