Robotics

The purpose of this protocol is to validate the safety skill “maintain safe distance” for hand-guided robots, eventually equipped with tracking technologies and collision avoidance controllers, where a limb of a subject has a free connection point with the robot and the robot can move that point within a 3D volume while preventing collision with the operator’s limbs. The minimum distance between robot internal links and subject limbs during operation must be ensured. This is validated using an instrumented limb attached to the robot end effector and a sensor system mounted on the robot.

The purpose of this protocol is to validate suitability of 3D sensors, particularly LiDAR scanners, for improving the skill “Maintain Safe Distance” in advanced Speed and Separation Monitoring (SSM) cobot applications . Besides the sensors’ technical characteristics, the data processing, and decision-making abilities of an associated intelligent control system (ICS) are the subject of validation. Such ICS periodically acquires of a COBOT and an operator, eventually predicts their positions in a the positions near future, and adjusts the COBOT’s velocity to keep their mutual distance above the accordingly updated protective separation distance (PSD). The validation test checks with assistance of a high-speed high-resolution camera whether the ICS implements the SSM functionality successfully to prevent collisions between the robot and the operator in a systematically chosen repertoire of collaborative situations identified as potentially hazardous in the risk assessment. This protocol was developed in the COVR funded FSTP project “CobotSense” by FOKUS TECH, the Maribor, and FANUC ADRIA, and was published as a deliverable for that project.

This document gives guidance for measuring forces and pressures in human-robot collision. It summarizes the findings of a research projects and supports the interpretation of results from such measurements.

This document addresses:— physically embodied RIA systems, such as robots and autonomous vehicles with which users will physically interact. — systems embedded within the physical environment with which users do not consciously interact, but which collect data and/or modify the environment within which people live or work such as smart building and, mood-detection. — intelligent software tools and agents with which users actively interact through some form of user interface. — intelligent software agents which act without active user input to modify or tailor the systems to the user's behaviour, task or some other purpose, including providing context specific content/information, tailoring adverts to a user based on information about them, user interfaces that adapt to the cognitive or physiological state, "ambient intelligence". — the effect on users resulting from the combined interaction of several RIA systems such as conflicting behaviours between the RIA systems under the same circumstances. — the complex system-of-systems and sociotechnical impacts of the use of RIA systems, particularly on society and government.This document is not an exploration of the philosophical, ethical or political issues surrounding robotics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and intelligent machines or environments. For matters of ethics and political issues, see standards such as BS 8611 and IEC P7000. However, this document does identify where and why ethical issues need to be taken into account for a wide range of systems and contexts, and as such it provides information relevant to the broader debate regarding RIA systems.This document has a broader focus than much of the early work on autonomy that relates to the automation of control tasks and mechanization of repetitive physical or cognitive tasks, and centres on levels of automation.Although this document addresses a wide range of technology applications, and sector and stakeholder views on the issues, the treatment of each can be incomplete due to the diverse and increasingly varied applications of RIA systems.

This document is intended to provide the readerwith a detailed overview of the ISA/IEC 62443Series of standards and technical reports. TheISA/IEC 62443 Series addresses the Security ofIndustrial Automation and Control Systems (IACS)throughout their lifecycle. These standards andtechnical reports were initially developed for theindustrial process sector but have since beenapplied to building automation, medical devices,and transportation sectors.

Discuss How 5G network enables robots to transport goods acrossmanufacturing plants

Enabling 5G Autonomous Robots in the Factory, e.g. how 5G enables robots to transport spare parts, equipment and materials around the factory floor. No longer dependent on cables for communication, the 5G robots can operate in every corner in the factory.

Webinar Addresses: Connected, smarter robots are considered crucial to delivering efficiencies through automation and remote monitoring, in areas such as factory floors. 5G IoT will make it possible for robots to connect with other robots, devices and systems in a way that wasn’t possible before. The webinar takes a deep dive into 5G Autonomous Mobile Robots, the functionality and solutions they can bring to an industrial setting, and the role of 5G IoT technologies in enabling them. Webinar addresses: Enabling the fourth industrial revolution; where interconnectivity and interoperability can deliver large scale automation and process orchestration for manufacturing and the wider industrial sectors. Connected, smarter robots are considered crucial to delivering efficiencies through automation and remote monitoring, in areas such as factory floors. 5G IoT will make it possible for robots to connect with other robots, devices and systems in a way that wasn’t possible before. The webinar takes a deep dive into 5G Autonomous Mobile Robots, the functionality and solutions they can bring to an industrial setting, and the role of 5G IoT technologies in enabling them. Webinar addresses: Enabling the fourth industrial revolution; where interconnectivity and interoperability can deliver large scale automation and process orchestration for manufacturing and the wider industrial sectors. Connected, smarter robots are considered crucial to delivering efficiencies through automation and remote monitoring, in areas such as factory floors. 5G IoT will make it possible for robots to connect with other robots, devices and systems in a way that wasn’t possible before. The webinar takes a deep dive into 5G Autonomous Mobile Robots, the functionality and solutions they can bring to an industrial setting, and the role of 5G IoT technologies in enabling them.

The main objective of this task is to facilitate the acceptance and utilization by the market of the developed solutions. Other objectives are to provide starting information for other WPs, ensure compatibility and interoperability with what already exists in the market through standards, as well as to use the standardization system as a tool for dissemination of the project results and interaction with the market stakeholders. The standardization activities planned in this task to fulfil the above objectives will be considered under two specific activities, which are mutually linked: the identification and analysis of related existing standards and the contribution to the ongoing and future standardization developments from the results of the project. The participation of a Standardization Body, representing CEN and CENELEC, provides the relevance, knowledge and experience in the standardization system and its internal procedures.

The document specifies technical characteristics and methods of measurements for Robotic Mowers with Inductive loop systems (RMI) operating within the frequency range 100 Hz to 148,5 kHz.

Provides Stage 1 normative service requirements for 5G systems, in particular service requirements for cyber-physical control applications in vertical domains. cyberphysical systems understood as systems that include engineered, interacting networks of physical and computational components; control applications are to be understood as applications that control physical processes. The requirements of relevance to robotics, e.g. Mobile Robots are discussed, including impact to Factories of the Future

The BG/BGIA recommendations for the risk assessment according to the machinery directive are published by the – German Institutions for Statutory Accident Insurance and – the Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (BGIA). Their objective is to provide companies an aid for the accident prevention related part of risk assessment. These BG/BGIA recommendations were drawn up in collaboration with the – Expert Committee for Machine Construction, Production Systems and Steel Construction of the Institution for Statutory Accident Insurance and Prevention Metall Nord Süd (Fachausschuss Maschinenbau, Fertigungssysteme, Stahlbau der Berufsgenossenschaft Metall Nord Süd).