A set of testing protocols was developed within COVR project to validate safety in robotic applications characterized by human-robot close interaction or collaboration. The purpose of this protocol is to validate the safety skill "maintain safe distance" for hand-guided robots, even-tually equipped with tracking technologies and collision avoidance controllers, where a limb of a subject has a free connection point with the robot and the robot can move that point within a 3D volume while preventing collision with the operator's limbs. The minimum distance between robot internal links and subject limbs during operation must be ensured. This is validated using an instrumented limb attached to the robot end effector and a sensor system mounted on the robot.
Test robot to maintain safe distance from the operator in a Hand-Guiding task
Marcello Valori;
2021
Abstract
A set of testing protocols was developed within COVR project to validate safety in robotic applications characterized by human-robot close interaction or collaboration. The purpose of this protocol is to validate the safety skill "maintain safe distance" for hand-guided robots, even-tually equipped with tracking technologies and collision avoidance controllers, where a limb of a subject has a free connection point with the robot and the robot can move that point within a 3D volume while preventing collision with the operator's limbs. The minimum distance between robot internal links and subject limbs during operation must be ensured. This is validated using an instrumented limb attached to the robot end effector and a sensor system mounted on the robot.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
