Safety in human-multi robot collaborative scenarios: a trajectory scaling approach. Lippi, M. & Marino, A. In IFAC-PapersOnLine, volume 51, 2018.
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© 2018In this paper, a strategy to handle the human safety in a multi-robot scenario is devised. In the presented framework, it is foreseen that robots are in charge of performing any cooperative manipulation task which is parameterized by a proper task function. The devised architecture answers to the increasing demand of strict cooperation between humans and robots, since it equips a general multi-robot cell with the feature of making robots and human working together. The human safety is properly handled by defining a safety index which depends both on the relative position and velocity of the human operator and robots. Then, the multi-robot task trajectory is properly scaled in order to ensure that the human safety never falls below a given threshold which can be set in worst conditions according to a minimum allowed distance. Simulations results are presented in order to prove the effectiveness of the approach.
@inproceedings{Lippi2018b,
  author = {Lippi, Martina and Marino, Alessandro},
  title = {Safety in human-multi robot collaborative scenarios: a trajectory scaling approach},
  booktitle = {IFAC-PapersOnLine},
  volume = {51},
  number = {22},
  doi = {10.1016/j.ifacol.2018.11.540},
  issn = {ISSN(print='24058963', electronic='24058963')},
  abstract = {© 2018In this paper, a strategy to handle the human safety in a multi-robot scenario is devised. In the presented framework, it is foreseen that robots are in charge of performing any cooperative manipulation task which is parameterized by a proper task function. The devised architecture answers to the increasing demand of strict cooperation between humans and robots, since it equips a general multi-robot cell with the feature of making robots and human working together. The human safety is properly handled by defining a safety index which depends both on the relative position and velocity of the human operator and robots. Then, the multi-robot task trajectory is properly scaled in order to ensure that the human safety never falls below a given threshold which can be set in worst conditions according to a minimum allowed distance. Simulations results are presented in order to prove the effectiveness of the approach.},
  year = {2018},
}

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