Safety design process for collaborative robots
Year of publication
2022
Authors
Malm, Timo
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. <br/><br/>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.
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Publication type
Publication format
Monograph
Audience
Professional
MINEDU's publication type classification code
D4 Published development or research report or study
Publication channel information
Journal
VTT Research Report
Publisher
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
Issue
VTT-R-00062-22
Open access
Open access in the publisher’s service
Yes
License of the publisher’s version
Other license
Self-archived
No
Other information
Fields of science
Electronic, automation and communications engineering, electronics
Keywords
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Language
English
International co-publication
No
Co-publication with a company
No
The publication is included in the Ministry of Education and Culture’s Publication data collection
Yes