Safety aspects of service robots

In the past 30 years, robots first conquered factories, then moved on to service applications. While industrial robots are not allowed to closely work together with robots, human-centered robotics is founded on that very close collaboration. Safety therefore is a critical issue for household, healthcare and other service robotics domains.

During the collaboration and co-working with humans, there are numerous safety aspects to consider. Robot manufacturers developed different protocols and methods to ensure high quality task execution. The global standards and unified approaches are yet missing.

 

Detailed tasks:

  • Analysis of critical human-machine co-working scenarios;
  • Objective analysis of existing platforms from the safety point of view focusing on service robots in healthcare;
  • Developing an assessment and measurement protocol for safety of human-robot collaboration;
  • Evaluating the results in the context of international standards

 

Over the course of the project, the student will get involved with the various research project of the Antal Bejczy Center for Intelligent Robotics.