Robot systems reliability and safety: A review

Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 170-212

  Dhillon, B S ^a   Fashandi, A R M ^a   Liu, K L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Automated operations; Industrial robots; Reliability; Robotics; Robots; Safety

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; AUTOMATION; CODES (STANDARDS); COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS; RELIABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; ROBOTICS; SECURITY SYSTEMS; SENSOR DATA FUSION;

ROBOT SYSTEMS RELIABILITY; SAFETY STANDARDS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 0036381206     PISSN: 13552511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13552510210439784     Document Type: Review

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