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Industrial manufacturing is moving towards flexible and intelligent processes. Human-Robot Collaboration (HRC) has a pivotal role in smart factories due to a more versatile resource allocation that ultimately drives higher productivity and efficiency. The physical barriers that separate robots’ and humans’ workspaces are removed to facilitate HRC, which raises new safety concerns. To cope with this new robotics paradigm, regulatory legislation and international safety standards have been issued and are enforced for any machinery placed in factories. In this paper, we aim to shorten the gap between research projects and industry-ready robotic systems, by providing the guidelines and general requirements for collaborative robotic applications. We review the current international safety standards, certification procedures under the scope of European jurisdiction, and elaborate a literature review of papers related to safety for collaborative workstations.
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The control architecture typologies (number and relationship between input, logic, test, and output elements) are labeled in different categories (B, 1, 2, 3, 4).
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This work was supported by NORTE-06-3559-FSE-000018, integrated into the invitation NORTE-59-2018-41, aiming to hire highly-qualified human resources, co-financed by the Regional Operational Programme of the North 2020, thematic area of Competitiveness and Employment, through the European Social Fund (ESF).
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Faria, C. et al. (2020). Safety Requirements for the Design of Collaborative Robotic Workstations in Europe – A Review. In: Arezes, P., Boring, R. (eds) Advances in Safety Management and Human Performance. AHFE 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1204. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50946-0_31
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