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The purpose of this protocol is to validate the safety skill “maintain safe distance” for hand-guided robots, eventually equipped with tracking technologies and collision avoidance controllers, where a limb of a subject has a free connection point with the robot and the robot can move that point within a 3D volume while preventing collision with the operator’s limbs. The minimum distance between robot internal links and subject limbs during operation must be ensured. This is validated using an instrumented limb attached to the robot end effector and a sensor system mounted on the robot.

The purpose of this protocol is to validate suitability of 3D sensors, particularly LiDAR scanners, for improving the skill “Maintain Safe Distance” in advanced Speed and Separation Monitoring (SSM) cobot applications . Besides the sensors’ technical characteristics, the data processing, and decision-making abilities of an associated intelligent control system (ICS) are the subject of validation. Such ICS periodically acquires of a COBOT and an operator, eventually predicts their positions in a the positions near future, and adjusts the COBOT’s velocity to keep their mutual distance above the accordingly updated protective separation distance (PSD). The validation test checks with assistance of a high-speed high-resolution camera whether the ICS implements the SSM functionality successfully to prevent collisions between the robot and the operator in a systematically chosen repertoire of collaborative situations identified as potentially hazardous in the risk assessment. This protocol was developed in the COVR funded FSTP project “CobotSense” by FOKUS TECH, the Maribor, and FANUC ADRIA, and was published as a deliverable for that project.

This document gives guidance for measuring forces and pressures in human-robot collision. It summarizes the findings of a research projects and supports the interpretation of results from such measurements.

As part of Autonomic/Autonomous Networks (ANs) paradigm, the document presents a Framework for intelligent and automated O&M for Access & Home networks, whichincludes: 1) Automatically identify typical anomalies and faults in Access & Home network based on Machine Learning (ML), Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms and expert experience, realize rapid troubleshooting, and thus reduce invalid on-site and sporadic issues. 2) Perform predictive analysis based on ML and AI to achieve preventive O&M and self-healing in case of failure.

The purpose of the protocol is to validate the safety skill “limit range of movement” for an angular motion of a single joint of an exoskeleton or a restrained-type rehabilitation robot. The range of motion is measured using an electro-goniometer.

IEC TR 60601-4-1:2017(E) is intended to help a manufacturer through the key decisions and steps to be taken to perform a detailed risk management and usability engineering processes for medical electrical equipment or a medical electrical system, hereafter referred to as MEE or MES, employing a degree of autonomy (DOA). This document provides a definition of DOA of MEE or MES and a medical robot, and also provides guidance on: - methodologies to perform the risk management process and usability engineering for an MEE or MES with a DOA; - considerations of basic safety and essential performance for an MEE and MES with a DOA; and - identifying the use of DOA, and similar concepts in existing ISO/IEC standards dealing with MEE or MES with the goal to facilitate alignment of standards by consistent use of the concept of DOA; and - distinguishing between medical robots, and other MEE and MES. Unless specified otherwise, this document considers MEE and MES together. The manufacturer of an MEE or MES with a DOA is expected to design and manufacture an MEE or MES that fulfils its intended use and does not have unacceptable risk throughout its life-cycle. This document provides guidance to help the manufacturer in complying with the requirements of IEC 60601-1:2005 and IEC 60601-1:2005/AMD1:2012 for MEE and MES with DOA. The document is also intended as guidance for future standard writers. There are no prerequisites to this document.

This document describes methods that can be used to test personal care robots in terms of safety requirements defined in ISO 13482. The target robots of this document are identical to those of ISO 13482.The manufacturer determines the required tests and appropriate testing parameters based on a risk assessment of the robot's design and usage. This risk assessment can determine that tests and test parameters other than those contained in this document are acceptable.Not all test methods are applicable to all robot types. Test methods labelled "universal" are applicable to all personal care robots. For other tests, the heading states for which robot types the test can be applied (e.g. "for wearable robot" or "for mobile robot").Some test methods can be replaced by using other applicable standards, even if they are not listed in this document.

This document provides guidance on the use of ISO 13482 and is intended to facilitate the design of personal care robots in conformity with ISO 13482. Additional guidance is provided for users with limited experience of risk assessment and risk reduction. This document provides clarification and guidance on new terms and safety requirements introduced to allow close human-robot interaction and human-robot contact in personal care robot applications, including mobile servant robots, physical assistant robots and person carrier robots. This document considers the application of ISO 13482 to all service robots and includes related examples.

This document is to establish a test method for exoskeleton-type WALKING RACA ROBOT which is intended to move from one location to another, by making reciprocating motion having intermittent contact with the travel surface.

This standard complies with the ISO 22166 family of standards providing requirements and guidelines on specifications on modularity for service robots. This Part 201 presents requirements and guidelines for common information models for modules of service robots.

This document specifies the requirements of safety management systems for application services provided by service robots (application service safety management system (hereafter AsSMS)) that an application service provider can use for the safety of its users and its third parties when it provides application service in unstructured human spaces with trained and untrained persons. (e.g., giving directions for visitors in airport or shopping mall, carrying goods to patients in hospital, delivering food to customers in restaurant.)This document is applicable to any organization that wishes toa) improve safety performance of application services provided by service robots,b) establish, implement, maintain and improve safety management systems for application services provided by service robots,c) assure itself of conformity with its stated application service safety policy, andd) demonstrate conformity with this document.The requirements of this document can be conformed to by integrating safety management systems for application services provided by service robots into, or making it compatible with, other management system or processes within the organization.The requirements of this document can be conformed to by multiple organizations without omission depending on what shall be done as an organization and a safety management.Although intended for application services provided by service robots, this standard can also be applied for services using robots other than service robots.This document is not intended to be used as a product safety standard.NOTE The safety management systems for application services provided by service robots established in accordance with the requirements of this document may not apply directly when service robots to be used, robot systems, contents of service, places of operation, users or so differ.