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The production and assembly of customized products increases the demand for flexible automation systems. One approach is to remove the safety fences that separate human and industrial robot to combine their skills. This collaboration possesses a certain risk for the human co-worker, leading to numerous safety concepts to protect him. The human needs to be monitored and tracked by a safety system using different sensors. The proposed system consists of a RGBD camera for surveillance of the common working area, an array of optical distance sensors to compensate shadowing effects of the RGBD camera and a laser range finder to detect the co-worker when approaching the work cell. The software for collision detection, path planning, robot control and predicting the behaviour of the co-worker is based on the Robot Operating System (ROS). A first prototype of the work cell shows that with advanced algorithms from the field of mobile robotics a very flexible safety concept can be realized: the robot not simply stops its movement when detecting a collision, but plans and executes an alternative path around the obstacle.
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Kallweit, S., Walenta, R., Gottschalk, M. (2016). ROS Based Safety Concept for Collaborative Robots in Industrial Applications. In: Borangiu, T. (eds) Advances in Robot Design and Intelligent Control. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 371. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21290-6_3
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