Challenges in the Safety-Security Co-Assurance of Collaborative Industrial Robots
This is an incremental review focusing on procedural and technological gaps in safety-security co-assurance for manufacturing robots.
The paper addresses the challenge of coordinating safety and security assurance for collaborative industrial robots, summarizing existing approaches and highlighting current issues without presenting new experimental results.
The coordinated assurance of interrelated critical properties, such as system safety and cyber-security, is one of the toughest challenges in critical systems engineering. In this chapter, we summarise approaches to the coordinated assurance of safety and security. Then, we highlight the state of the art and recent challenges in human-robot collaboration in manufacturing both from a safety and security perspective. We conclude with a list of procedural and technological issues to be tackled in the coordinated assurance of collaborative industrial robots.