TY - JOUR
T1 - Validating safety in human–robot collaboration
T2 - Standards and new perspectives
AU - Valori, Marcello
AU - Scibilia, Adriano
AU - Fassi, Irene
AU - Saenz, José
AU - Behrens, Roland
AU - Herbster, Sebastian
AU - Bidard, Catherine
AU - Lucet, Eric
AU - Magisson, Alice
AU - Schaake, Leendert
AU - Bessler, Jule
AU - Prange-Lasonder, Gerdienke B.
AU - Kühnrich, Morten
AU - Lassen, Aske B.
AU - Nielsen, Kurt
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding: This research was funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, under grant agreement No 779966.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
PY - 2021/4/29
Y1 - 2021/4/29
N2 - Human–robot collaboration is currently one of the frontiers of industrial robot implementation. In parallel, the use of robots and robotic devices is increasing in several fields, substituting humans in “4D”—dull, dirty, dangerous, and delicate—tasks, and such a trend is boosted by the recent need for social distancing. New challenges in safety assessment and verification arise, due to both the closer and closer human–robot interaction, common for the different application domains, and the broadening of user audience, which is now very diverse. The present paper discusses a cross-domain approach towards the definition of step-by-step validation procedures for collaborative robotic applications. To outline the context, the standardization framework is analyzed, especially from the perspective of safety testing and assessment. Afterwards, some testing procedures based on safety skills, developed within the framework of the European project COVR, are discussed and exemplary presented.
AB - Human–robot collaboration is currently one of the frontiers of industrial robot implementation. In parallel, the use of robots and robotic devices is increasing in several fields, substituting humans in “4D”—dull, dirty, dangerous, and delicate—tasks, and such a trend is boosted by the recent need for social distancing. New challenges in safety assessment and verification arise, due to both the closer and closer human–robot interaction, common for the different application domains, and the broadening of user audience, which is now very diverse. The present paper discusses a cross-domain approach towards the definition of step-by-step validation procedures for collaborative robotic applications. To outline the context, the standardization framework is analyzed, especially from the perspective of safety testing and assessment. Afterwards, some testing procedures based on safety skills, developed within the framework of the European project COVR, are discussed and exemplary presented.
KW - Collaborative robots
KW - Robot standards
KW - Robotic safety
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U2 - 10.3390/robotics10020065
DO - 10.3390/robotics10020065
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85105719099
SN - 2218-6581
VL - 10
JO - Robotics
JF - Robotics
IS - 2
M1 - 65
ER -