Safety of human-robot interaction through tactile sensors and peripersonal space representations
This addresses safety concerns for industrial and scientific applications involving human-robot collaboration, but appears incremental as it builds on existing safety guidelines.
The paper tackled the problem of ensuring safety in close physical human-robot interaction by exploring robots equipped with artificial sensitive skin and a protective safety zone, but it did not report specific results or concrete numbers.
Human-robot collaboration including close physical human-robot interaction (pHRI) is a current trend in industry and also science. The safety guidelines prescribe two modes of safety: (i) power and force limitation and (ii) speed and separation monitoring. We examine the potential of robots equipped with artificial sensitive skin and a protective safety zone around it (peripersonal space) to safe pHRI.