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IROS
2007
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
Towards a novel safety norm for domestic robotics
— Safety is a critical success factor for consumer acceptance of domestic robotic products. Some researchers have adopted the Head Injury Criterion (HIC) as absolute safety norm....
Martin Wassink, Stefano Stramigioli
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
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...
AEI
2006
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13 years 5 months ago
Design issues for assistive robotics for the elderly
The worldwide population of elderly people is growing rapidly and in the coming decades the proportion of older people in the developed countries will change significantly. This d...
Qinggang Meng, Mark H. Lee
AR
2004
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13 years 4 months ago
Inevitable collision states - a step towards safer robots?
-- An inevitable collision state for a robotic system can be defined as a state for which, no matter what the future trajectory followed by the system is, a collision with an obsta...
Thierry Fraichard, Hajime Asama
KI
2010
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
A Testbed for Adaptive Human-Robot Collaboration
Abstract. This paper presents a novel method for developing and evaluating intelligent robot behavior for joint human-robot activities. We extended a physical simulation of an auto...
Alexandra Kirsch, Yuxiang Chen