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Crash-Testing in Robotics

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Towards Safe Robots

Part of the book series: Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics ((STAR,volume 90))

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Abstract

Ensuring safety leads to various aspects ranging from preventing electrical threats to coping with human mistakes. Up to now, this monograph focused on developing different methods for collision avoidance, detection, and reaction, i.e. to equip the robot with reactive motion control capabilities to appropriately react to environmental changes and unforeseen collisions. In this chapter however, the focus is on various aspects of physical human-robot contact and their related injury potential. In Figure 5.1 a first overview on relevant contact scenarios which potentially lead to human injury is given.

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Haddadin, S. (2014). Crash-Testing in Robotics. In: Towards Safe Robots. Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, vol 90. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40308-8_5

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