Evaluation of Human Pain Tolerance and Its Application to Designing Safety Robot Mechanisms for Human-Robot Coexistence

Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 65-70

  Yamada, Yoji ^a  

^a TOYOTA TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Contact Viscoelastic covering; Disturbance observer; Fail safe; Human pain tolerance; Robot; safety

Indexed keywords

MACHINE DESIGN; MANIPULATORS;

CONTACT VISCOELASTIC COVERING; DISTURBANCE OBSERVER; FAIL SAFES; HUMAN PAIN TOLERANCE; HUMAN ROBOTS; ITS APPLICATIONS; ROBOTS SYSTEM; SAFE ROBOTS; TOLERANCE LIMITS; VISCOELASTICS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 0010482267     PISSN: 09153942     EISSN: 18838049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.20965/jrm.1997.p0065     Document Type: Article

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