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Robot Reliability

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Robot Reliability and Safety

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The subject of robot reliability is very complex and there are numerous interlocking variables in evaluating and accomplishing various reliability levels. A successful robot installation has to be safe and reliable. A robot with poor reliability leads to many problems: high maintenance cost, unsafe conditions, inconvenience, and so on. Nevertheless, the American National Standard for Industrial Robots and Robot Systems—Safety Requirements [1] specifically calls for the design and construction of robots in such a way that any single, reasonably foreseeable failure will not lead to the robot’s hazardous motion. There are many different types of parts which are used in robots: electrical, electronic, hydraulic, pneumatic, and mechanical. This makes the task of producing highly reliable robots rather a challenging one. Furthermore, the environments in which the robots have to operate may be harsh and may vary enormously from one installation to another even for identical models.

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Dhillon, B.S. (1991). Robot Reliability. In: Robot Reliability and Safety. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3148-6_8

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