Robot-Dummy Crash Tests for Robot Safety Assessment

— New technologies and processes enhance the need for direct human-robot-interaction, to fully exploit the potential of robots’ accuracy and humans’ adaptability. Therefore, the hazardous potential of the involved robot manipulator needs to be minimised. Limits must be set, so that only an acceptable severity of injury for the human will remain in case of an unintended contact between the robot and a human. Current standardisation for industrial robot systems does not sufficiently address the subject of close human-robot-cooperation, thereby restricting the implementation of the newest technology. The aim of the reported research is to demonstrate the possibilities to assess the safety performance of robot systems by robotdummy impact evaluation. In this paper, methods from the automotive industry are investigated on their transferability to the situation in robotics. Anthropomorphic test devices, so called crash test dummies, that resemble the human’s kinematic response in ca...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: ICRA
• Authors: Susanne Oberer, Rolf Dieter Schraft
• Keywords: ICRA 2007, Industrial Robot, Robot, Robot Systems, Robotics