Safety design process for collaborative robots

Timo Malm

Safety design process for collaborative robots

Timo Malm

BA5608 Safety in complex sociotechnical systems

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Abstract

Safety of collaborative robotics has brought new aspects to safety compared to industrial robots. In collaborative robot cells human can be close to the collaborative robot, whereas in industrial robot cells the robots are mainly isolated from humans. The collaborative robots are assumed to be safer than industrial robots, but the vicinity to humans can create new risks, which need to be controlled. One new protective feature, compared to industrial robots, is limited impact force and pressure.

Here the focus is on collaborative robots in welding applications. This hyperbook gives ideas, how to design safe collaborative robot cells. The text includes plenty of hyperlinks inside the hyperbook and also some links to requirements and sources of standards. The text can be divided into three parts: background to safety requirements, safety design process and examples of applying safety requirements in collaborative robot cells.

Original language	English
Publisher	VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
Number of pages	57
Publication status	Published - 18 Jan 2022
MoE publication type	D4 Published development or research report or study

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Series	VTT Research Report
Number	VTT-R-00062-22

Keywords

collaborative robot
safety

UN SDGs

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Yhteistyörobotit tulevat
Malm, T., Salmi, T. & Aaltonen, I., 7 May 2020, Espoo: VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. 79 p. (VTT Tutkimusraportti; No. VTT-R-00464-20).
Research output: Book/Report › Report

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