CEN Workshop Agreement "Guidelines for the development and use of safety testing procedures in human-robot collaboration"

This document gives guidelines for a uniform framework, transversal with respect to the different robot categories and limited to those robots and robotic applications characterized by human-robot collaboration, for the development and/or use of testing procedures, applicable to different robot categories and use scenarios. This document is informative and is not aimed at substituting or simplifying verification and/or validation procedures required by standards. The objectives of this document are the following: -- define an approach for the development and use of procedures for testing safety in human-robot collaboration at a system level, based on safety-relevant human-robot collaboration skills and limited to the mechanical hazards; -- define a comprehensive list of application-driven, technology-invariant safety-relevant human-robot collaboration skills valid across different domains; -- provide a template for system-level validation protocols; -- by way of example, present two system-level validation protocols, applicable to multiple domains.