Design process for user interaction with robotic manipulators in industrial internet applications

In the paper we want to share our experiences in developing a new telemaintenance system for industrial robots in an active production environment. This has been achieved within a three-year research project. In this article we describe the design methods we have used, and our evaluation approaches. The challenge of developing user interfaces for those prototypes lies in the special requirements of the industrial work domain. Highly sophisticated technical tasks need to be carried out under time pressure and in a noisy environment. The human machine interaction of the remote tasks is especially difficult. There's no experience with those remote tasks, as they are only possible with the developed technology. The scope of the paper lies in the design process, not in the evaluation results, which will be published separately.