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Time-of-Flight Cameras Enabling Collaborative Robots for Improved Safety in Medical Applications

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  • Thomas M. Wendt

    (Department of Business Administration and Industrial Engineering, University of Applied Sciences Offenburg, Gengenbach, Germany)

  • Urban B. Himmelsbach

    (Department of Business Administration and Industrial Engineering, University of Applied Sciences Offenburg, Gengenbach, Germany)

  • Matthias Lai

    (NewTec GmbH, Freiburg, Germany)

  • Matthias Waßmer

    (Department of Business Administration and Industrial Engineering, University of Applied Sciences Offenburg, Gengenbach, Germany)

Abstract

Human-robot collaboration is being used more and more in industry applications and is finding its way into medical applications. Industrial robots that are used for human-robot collaboration, cannot detect obstacles from a distance. This paper introduced the idea of using wireless technology to connect a Time-of-Flight camera to off-the-shelf industrial robots. This way, the robot can detect obstacles up to a distance of five meters. Connecting Time-of-Flight cameras to robots increases the safety in human-robot collaboration by detecting obstacles before a collision. After looking at the state of the art, the authors elaborated the different requirements for such a system. The Time-of-Flight camera from Heptagon is able to work in a range of up to five meters and can connect to the control unit of the robot via a wireless connection.

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  • Thomas M. Wendt & Urban B. Himmelsbach & Matthias Lai & Matthias Waßmer, 2017. "Time-of-Flight Cameras Enabling Collaborative Robots for Improved Safety in Medical Applications," International Journal of Interdisciplinary Telecommunications and Networking (IJITN), IGI Global, vol. 9(4), pages 10-17, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:igg:jitn00:v:9:y:2017:i:4:p:10-17
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