Safety in Human-Robot Collaborative Manufacturing Environments: Metrics and Control

IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 882-893

  Zanchettin, Andrea Maria ^a   Ceriani, Nicola Maria ^b   Rocco, Paolo ^a   Ding, Hao ^c   Matthias, Björn ^c  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b Tenaris   (Italy)

^c ABB CORPORATE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Human robot collaboration; industrial robots; motion planning; safety standards

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL MANIPULATORS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS;

COLLABORATIVE MANUFACTURING; HUMAN ROBOTS; INDUSTRIAL ROBOTICS; MOTION GENERATION; PHYSICAL SEPARATION; ROBOTIC MANIPULATORS;

MANIPULATORS;

EID: 84926350098     PISSN: 15455955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASE.2015.2412256     Document Type: Article

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