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ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Safe robot arm with safe joint mechanism using nonlinear spring system for collision safety
—Collision safety between humans and robots has drawn much attention since service robots are increasingly being used in human environments. A safe robot arm based on passive com...
Jung-Jun Park, Hwi-Su Kim, Jae-Bok Song
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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Towards a personal robotics development platform: Rationale and design of an intrinsically safe personal robot
—The most critical challenge for Personal Robotics is to manage the issue of human safety and yet provide the physical capability to perform useful work. This paper describes a n...
Keenan A. Wyrobek, Eric H. Berger, H. F. Machiel V...
IROS
2008
IEEE
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Collision detection and reaction: A contribution to safe physical Human-Robot Interaction
Abstract— In the framework of physical Human-Robot Interaction (pHRI), methodologies and experimental tests are presented for the problem of detecting and reacting to collisions ...
Sami Haddadin, Alin Albu-Schäffer, Alessandro...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Integration of active and passive compliance control for safe human-robot coexistence
— In this paper we discuss the integration of active and passive approaches to robotic safety in an overall scheme for real-time manipulator control. The active control approach ...
Riccardo Schiavi, Antonio Bicchi, Fabrizio Flacco
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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A new variable stiffness design: Matching requirements of the next robot generation
— Facing new tasks, the conventional rigid design of robotic joints has come to its limits. Operating in unknown environments current robots are prone to failure when hitting unf...
Sebastian Wolf, Gerd Hirzinger