  Worker-Robot Cooperation is a new industrial trend, which aims to sum the
advantages of both the human and the industrial robot to afford a new
intelligent manufacturing techniques. The cooperative manufacturing between the
worker and the robot contains other elements such as the product parts and the
manufacturing tools. All these production elements must cooperate in one
manufacturing workcell to fulfill the production requirements. The
manufacturing control system is the mean to connect all these cooperative
elements together in one body. This manufacturing control system is distributed
and autonomous due to the nature of the cooperative workcell. Accordingly, this
article proposes the holonic control architecture as the manufacturing concept
of the cooperative workcell. Furthermore, the article focuses on the
feasibility of this manufacturing concept, by applying it over a case study
that involves the cooperation between a dual-arm robot and a worker. During
this case study, the worker uses a variety of hand gestures to cooperate with
the robot to achieve the highest production flexibility
