Safe Sensing for Industrial Human-robot Collaboration

Safe Sensing for Industrial Human-robot Collaboration discusses the trend for future technology development in this field. Its driving force is the vision that many industrial scenarios will include both human workers with specific expertise and robotic production assistants with their characteristic strengths, combining forces to empower a production facility with superior productivity and flexibility. This book presents professionals with the real requirements for safe sensing in industrial mixed human-robot environments, along with the current availability of safe sensing technologies/products. With its real cases regarding industrial human-robot collaboration, this book will be a great resource for both graduate students and researchers. Provides the guidance and instruction to understand the real requirements and state-of-the art technology as the foundation/basis for industrial human-robot collaboration Focuses on safety sensing and the perception required to ensure that the robot has awareness of the human operator in the robot workspace and can behave in a safe mannerContains the state-of-the-art of safe sensing technology, covering scientific research, prototypes and existing products INDICE: 1. Introduction / Background Part A: Safe sensing requirements for industrial human-robot collaborative 2. Industrial human-robot collaboration: describing what is it defined in the international standards including four collaborative operation types a. General requirements b. Safe-Rated Monitoring Stop c. Hand Guiding d. Speed & Separation Monitoring e. Power and Force Limiting 3. Safe sensing requirements for different collaborative operation types a. Safe sensing for Safe-Rated Monitoring Stop b. Safe sensing for Hand Guiding c. Safe sensing for Speed & Separation Monitoring d. Safe sensing for Power and Force Limiting 4. Use-cases / real industrial collaborative applications Part B: State-of-the-art safe sensing technology, covering scientific research, prototypes and existing products 5. Force-torque and tactile sensing 6. Capacitive sensing, focusing on proximity sensing 7. Optical sensing, using visible or infrared light for measurement 8. Vision-based sensing, all camera-based solution, especially 3D vision, also including infrared vision 9. Radio wave based sensing, including radar and Wi-Fi 10. Acoustic sensing, including ultrasound

• ISBN: 978-0-12-814857-0
• Editorial: Butterworth-Heinemann
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 340
• Fecha Publicación: 01/10/2019
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés