Safe Human-Robot Cooperation in an Industrial Environment
Open Access
- 1 January 2013
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems
- Vol. 10 (1), 27
- https://doi.org/10.5772/53939
Abstract
The standard EN ISO10218 is fostering the implementation of hybrid production systems, i.e., production systems characterized by a close relationship among human operators and robots in cooperative tasks. Human-robot hybrid systems could have a big economic benefit in small and medium sized production, even if this new paradigm introduces mandatory, challenging safety aspects. Among various requirements for collaborative workspaces, safety-assurance involves two different application layers; the algorithms enabling safe space-sharing between humans and robots and the enabling technologies allowing acquisition data from sensor fusion and environmental data analysing. This paper addresses both the problems: a collision avoidance strategy allowing on-line re-planning of robot motion and a safe network of unsafe devices as a suggested infrastructure for functional safety achievement.Keywords
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