Manufacturing is using Virtual Reality tools to enhance the product life cycle. Their definitions are still in flux and it is necessary to define their connections. Thus, firstly, we will introduce more closely some definitions where we will find that, if the Virtual manufacturing concepts originate from machining operations and evolve in this manufacturing area, there exist a lot of applications in different fields such as casting, forging, sheet metalworking and robotics (mechanisms). From the recent projects in Europe or in USA, we notice that the human perception or the simulation of mannequin is more and more needed in both fields. In this context, we have isolated some applications as ergonomic studies, assembly and maintenance simulation, design or training where the virtual reality tools can be applied. Thus, we find out a family of applications where the virtual reality tools give the engineers the main role in the optimization process. We will illustrate our paper by several examples where virtual reality interfaces are used and combined with optimization tools as multi-agent systems.
Design and Evaluation of an Augmented Reality Head-Mounted Display Interface for Human Robot Teams Collaborating in Physically Shared Manufacturing Tasks
Monash University（莫纳什大学）；University of British Columbia（不列颠哥伦比亚大学）
Towards Tangible Immersion for Cobot Programming-by-Demonstration: Visual, Tactile and Haptic Interfaces for Mixed-Reality Cobot Automation in Semiconductor Manufacturing
Intel Labs, Intelligent System Research, Human-Robot Collaboration（英特尔实验室、智能系统研究、人机协作）
Safe, Fluent and Acceptable Motion Generation and Execution for Human--Robot Interaction in Manufacturing Environments
GIPSA Lab（GIPSA实验室）；Grenoble Institute of Technology（格勒诺布尔理工学院）；Inria（法国国家信息与自动化研究所）；LIP/PC2S（LIP/PC2S实验室）；Univ. Grenoble Alpes（格勒诺布尔阿尔卑斯大学）；Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc（萨瓦大学）
Auditory Localization and Assessment of Consequential Robot Sounds: A Multi-Method Study in Virtual Reality
Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz（莱茵-穆尔海姆大学）；University of Bonn（波恩大学）；Lamarr Institute for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence（拉玛尔机器学习与人工智能研究所）；Chalmers University of Technology（查尔姆斯理工大学）
Reframing Human-Robot Interaction Through Extended Reality: Unlocking Safer, Smarter, and More Empathic Interactions with Virtual Robots and Foundation Models
Division of Robotics, Perception, and Learning, KTH Royal Institute of Technology（KTH皇家理工学院机器人、感知与学习部）；Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Bergen（卑尔根大学临床医学系）
BEHAVIOR-1K: A Human-Centered, Embodied AI Benchmark with 1,000 Everyday Activities and Realistic Simulation
Stanford University（斯坦福大学）；The University of Texas at Austin（德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校）；The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign（伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校）；University of Southern California（南加州大学）；Salesforce Research（Salesforce研究院）
