A safety measure for control mode switching of Skill-Assist for effective automotive manufacturing

IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 817-825

  Lee, Suwoong ^a,b   Hara, Susumu ^c   Yamada, Yoji ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hidden Markov models; man machine systems; robot sensing systems; safety

Indexed keywords

ASSIST DEVICE; AUTOMOTIVE MANUFACTURING; CONTROL MODES; FORCE SENSOR; GESTURE RECOGNITION ALGORITHM; HANDS-ON CONTROL; HUMAN OPERATOR; LASER RANGE SENSORS; OPERATOR SAFETY; POWER-ASSIST CONTROL; ROBOT SENSING SYSTEMS; SAFETY; SAFETY MEASURES; SERIOUS INJURIES; SMOOTH CONTROL;

CIVIL DEFENSE; GESTURE RECOGNITION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; LASER MODES; LASER SAFETY; MACHINERY; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; SENSORS; SWITCHING;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

EID: 77957805359     PISSN: 15455955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASE.2009.2035708     Document Type: Article

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