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Methodology for the identification of human skills requirements for work in industrial human-robot collaboration

Scope

This document sets out a methodology for identifying the human skills that will be needed by operators working in industrial human-robot systems. This methodology is an output currently needed by production system designers, integrators and owners who currently lack a means of evaluating what skills and training they need to provide and design for. The current gap in the availability of a practical and reliable methodology has been identified within the work of the ‘AI-PRISM’ project (funded by Horizon Europe Innovation Actions Grant Agreement number: 101058589). The AI-PRISM project has integrated Social Science and Humanities (SSH) analysis in a number of project tasks. This document presents an overview of the methodology that has been tested in the AI-PRISM project to develop a framework for assessing and developing human skills and abilities for working with robots in collaborative industrial systems. This incorporates new knowledge concerning operators’ social and emotional needs as well technical skills, and a review of current training programmes and best practices, and empirical data from experimental behavioural studies to test a skills and abilities training programme specifically for this context. Circulation and application of this methodology and its individual component assessment techniques will facilitate the development of skills that bring a more efficient, resilient, flexible, safe and ethical European manufacturing industry in the future.