Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Michael Little

Hasan Sinan Bank

A system for safe interaction between a human and an industrial machine includes a cyber-mechanical system. The cyber-mechanical system includes at least one industrial machine and a cyber-mechanical control system for processing inputs and producing control outputs for the at least one industrial machine; The system further includes a task planner configured to translate high level goals into scheduled tasks of the industrial machine. The system includes an interaction reasoner that identifies at least one interaction between the industrial machine and a human working in cooperation with the industrial machine. Output of the interaction reasoner is provided to an image generator that produces an interaction image. The interaction image represents information relating to one or more of the scheduled tasks of the industrial machine. An image projector associated with the industrial machine conveys information about the scheduled tasks of the associated industrial machine to the human.

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Michael Little