Overview of an Engineering Teaching Module on Robotics Safety

Zhang, Dan; Wei, Bin; Rosen, Marc

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-33581-0_3

Dan Zhang³,
Bin Wei³ &
Marc Rosen³

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Robots are widely used in industry. They can perform unsafe, hazardous, highly repetitive and unpleasant tasks for humans. Safety is a very high priority in engineering and engineering education. In this paper, an overview is provided of engineering teaching module on robotic safety developed by the authors. The module covers types of robots, types and sources of robotics hazards, robot safety requirements, robot safeguards and robot safety standards. The importance of safety is highlighted throughout, especially for practical industrial applications. Some new emerging engineering trends and features safety are discussed.

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The authors are grateful for the financial and technical support of Minerva Canada, Mitacs Canada, and General Motors of Canada. The first two authors also would like to thank the financial support from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and Canada Research Chairs program.

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University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Oshawa, ON, Canada
Dan Zhang, Bin Wei & Marc Rosen

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Department of Mechanical Engineering, Lassonde School of Engineering York Univ Department of Mechanical Engineering, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Zhang, D., Wei, B., Rosen, M. (2017). Overview of an Engineering Teaching Module on Robotics Safety. In: Zhang, D., Wei, B. (eds) Mechatronics and Robotics Engineering for Advanced and Intelligent Manufacturing. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33581-0_3

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Published: 23 August 2016
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