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To realize human-robot collaboration in manufacturing, industrial robots need to share an environment with humans and to work hand in hand. This introduces safety concerns but also provides the opportunity to take advantage of human-robot interactions to control the robot. The main objective of this work is to provide HRI without compromising safety issues in a realistic industrial context. In the paper, a region-based filtering and reasoning method for safety has been developed and integrated into a human-robot collaboration system. The proposed method has been successfully demonstrated keeping safety during the showcase evaluation of the European robotics challenges with a real mobile manipulator.
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This work was supported by the EuRoC Project under Grant no. 608849.
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Lim, G.H. et al. (2018). Human-Robot Collaboration and Safety Management for Logistics and Manipulation Tasks. In: Ollero, A., Sanfeliu, A., Montano, L., Lau, N., Cardeira, C. (eds) ROBOT 2017: Third Iberian Robotics Conference. ROBOT 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 694. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70836-2_2
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