TY - GEN
T1 - Optimization of the Speed & Separation Monitoring Protective Separation Distance in Human-Robot Collaboration Safety Systems
AU - Nandeshwar, Nitin
AU - Humphries, Jacqueline
AU - Amer, Nehal
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 IEEE.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Efforts to create a safe collaborative working environment between humans and industrial robots are the subject of research interests. As per the current trend in industries, when a human enters a robot's workspace protected by fences, the safety system stops the robot. So, full efficiency is not realized as there is an increase in the robot's downtime. One solution is to enable a fluid human-robot collaboration in the same workspace in which the robot's need to stop is reduced. However, not stopping the robot leads to a potential risk of collision between the human and the robot. According to ISO/TS 15066, Safety control schemes based on speed and separation monitoring allow human operators to share the same workspace as the robot while in motion. The robot motion and velocity are dependent on the distance between the operator and the robot. In this paper, we examine how the researchers attempt to reduce the protective separation distance (PSD) between the robot and the human for human-robot collaboration work and modify its equation to identify scope for efficiency.
AB - Efforts to create a safe collaborative working environment between humans and industrial robots are the subject of research interests. As per the current trend in industries, when a human enters a robot's workspace protected by fences, the safety system stops the robot. So, full efficiency is not realized as there is an increase in the robot's downtime. One solution is to enable a fluid human-robot collaboration in the same workspace in which the robot's need to stop is reduced. However, not stopping the robot leads to a potential risk of collision between the human and the robot. According to ISO/TS 15066, Safety control schemes based on speed and separation monitoring allow human operators to share the same workspace as the robot while in motion. The robot motion and velocity are dependent on the distance between the operator and the robot. In this paper, we examine how the researchers attempt to reduce the protective separation distance (PSD) between the robot and the human for human-robot collaboration work and modify its equation to identify scope for efficiency.
KW - ISO/TS 15066
KW - Protective Separation Distance
KW - Speed & Separation Monitoring
KW - human-robot safety system
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U2 - 10.1109/ICMERR56497.2022.10097793
DO - 10.1109/ICMERR56497.2022.10097793
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85156139540
T3 - 2022 7th International Conference on Mechanical Engineering and Robotics Research, ICMERR 2022
SP - 157
EP - 162
BT - 2022 7th International Conference on Mechanical Engineering and Robotics Research, ICMERR 2022
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 7th International Conference on Mechanical Engineering and Robotics Research, ICMERR 2022
Y2 - 9 December 2022 through 11 December 2022
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