Title
A minimum invasive strategy to guarantee safety under unexpected unintentional human-robot contact
Abstract
The problem of designing an active robot reaction scheme to increase safety against unexpected, unintentional robot contacts with a human or its environment, is considered in this work. Its main functionalities are a) the regulation of the interaction force profile within acceptable/safe boundaries and b) the prevention of undesirable after-contact collisions. The developed methodology is model-free and operates at the high level of reference trajectory determination, producing bounded and sufficiently smooth modifications of the nominal reference, leaving intact the embedded low-level, robot position controller. It is underlined that the proposed minimal invasive solution, is evaluated via experiments performed on a KUKA LWR4+ robotic manipulator equipped with a Shadow Hand-Lite having optoforce sensors attached at its fingertips.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1109/MED.2017.7984140
2017 25th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED)
Keywords
Field
DocType
minimum invasive strategy,safety,unintentional human-robot contact,active robot reaction scheme,interaction force profile,after-contact collisions,robot position controller,KUKA LWR4+ robotic manipulator,shadow hand-lite having optoforce sensors
Robot control,Shadow,Control theory,Computer science,Control theory,Control engineering,Robot,Robot manipulator,Trajectory,Human–robot interaction,Bounded function
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2325-369X
978-1-5090-4534-1
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
6
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yiannis Koveos100.34
George A. Rovithakis274945.73
Ioannis Agriomallos330.76
Stefanos Doltsinis4304.59