Abstract

Collaborative robotics have a large potential for use in industrial applications. Nevertheless, this potential is currently unrealized and one of the reasons is the challenges in planning and designing while considering the safety requirements of these new types of applications. In this article, we will use an exemplary application to describe the many design decisions that are made during the planning of an industrial application featuring human-robot collaboration. Our approach uses model-based systems engineering concepts for considering safety-related aspects of the application during the design phase. Using a software implementation based on our method, we will then compare design results including required floor space and cycle time for the same exemplary application and discuss the implications of our approach for planning other robotics tasks. With our method, the required separation area around the robot was reduced by up to over 66% for a situation featuring a specific robot to be operated at 100% of its maximum possible speed.

中文翻译：

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以人机协作为特征的机器人应用程序设计中考虑安全性的方法

摘要

协作机器人技术在工业应用中具有很大的潜力。然而，这种潜力目前尚未实现，原因之一是在考虑这些新型应用的安全要求的同时进行规划和设计方面的挑战。在本文中，我们将使用一个示例性应用程序来描述在规划具有人机协作功能的工业应用程序期间做出的许多设计决策。我们的方法使用基于模型的系统工程概念来在设计阶段考虑应用程序的安全相关方面。使用基于我们方法的软件实现，然后，我们将比较相同示例应用程序的设计结果（包括所需的占地面积和周期时间），并讨论我们的方法对其他机器人任务进行计划的意义。通过我们的方法，在特定机器人以其最大可能速度的100％进行操作的情况下，机器人周围所需的分离区域最多减少了66％以上。