Learning and Performing Assembly Processes

Oestreich H, Wrede S, Wrede B. Learning and Performing Assembly Processes - An Overview of Learning and Adaptivity in Digital Assistance Systems for Manufacturing. In: The 13th PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments Conference (PETRA '20), June 30-July 3, 2020, Corfu, Greece. 2020.Due to digitalization and Industry 4.0, the use of assistance systems on the shop floor has become commonplace nowadays. Besides the economical reasons of increasing productivity and quality, the educational functionalities offer new possibilities. Workers can use the systems to learn new skills, new assembly processes and further more. To offer a good user experience along the learning path, assistance systems should be adaptive and must adjust their level of support according to the current user state and experience. In addition, the application of the systems can become more versatile and they may be used productively beyond the training phase as well. Therefore it is important to consider fundamental principles of learning and different levels of adaptivity along given dimensions. In this paper an overview about both topics is presented and summarized in two morphologic boxes. To realize adaptivity within the software architecture of assistance systems three different approaches were identified. The work was based on an extensive literature review and should be beneficial for the future development and research in this domain