COVR

The purpose of this protocol is to validate the safety skill “limit range of movement” for grippers of industrial robots. In this context, the skill “limit range of movement” is often used to avoid the possibility of clamping a part of an operator body dur ing robot operations, typically pick and place tasks. The validation protocol is aimed at verifying gripper working when limits are set, by the use of Gauge blocks.

The purpose of this protocol is to validate the skill “limit range of motion” for industrial mobile robots and their payload. In this context, the skill limit range of motion is used to avoid the mobile robot and its payload to go through a forbidden space location. The validation protocol is aimed to check whether the footprint of the system is correctly set or not.

The purpose of this protocol is to test the skill “dynamic stability” of mobile platforms by measurement. Its scope is limited to mobile platforms used in industrial indoor applications. In this context, the objective is to protect workers from injuries caused by collisions where the mobile platform tilts. The validation of this protocol requires that the reader has access to an inclinometer.

The purpose of this protocol is to validate the safety skill “limit interaction energy” by measurement. Its scope is limited to mobile robot arms that used in Logistics and Manufacturing applications. In this context, the skill “limit interaction energy” is often used to protect workers from injuries caused by collisions where the mobile robot arm traps a part of the human body against a fixed obstacle. The validation of this protocol requires that the reader has a bio-fidel force and pressure measurement device available.

The purpose of this protocol is to validate the safety skill “limit interaction energy” by measurement. Its scope is limited to mobile platforms that used in Logistics and Manufacturing applications. In this context, the skill “limit interaction energy” can be used to protect workers from injuries caused by collisions where the mobile platform traps a part of the human body against a fixed obstacle. The validation of this protocol requires that the reader has a bio-fidel force and pressure measurement device.

The purpose of this protocol is to validate the safety skill “maintain safe distance” by measurement. Its scope is limited to Highly Automated Agricultural Machines (HAAM). In this context, the skill “maintain safe distance” is often used to protect workers from injuries caused by collisions where the HAAM collides with a part of the human. The protocol validates that the stopping distance is never exceeded in a HAAM system when using a safety skill that detect objects and triggers a stop. The validation of this protocol requires that the reader has a distance measuring system available.

The purpose of this protocol is to validate the skill “limit range of motion” for industrial mobile robots and payload , including a robotic arm mounted on it their . In this context, the skill limit range of motion is used to avoid the mobile robot , the arm aimed to check whether th and its payload to go through a forbidden space location. The validation protocol is e footprint of the system is correctly set or not.

The purpose of this protocol is to test the skill dynamic stability of mobile robot arms by measurement. Its scope is limited to robot arms with a mobile base used in industrial indoor applications. For the stability scenarios studied it is assumed that the mobile base is at a standstill with only the mobile robot arm moving. The objective is to protect workers from injuries caused by collisions where the mobile base tilts. The validation of this protocol requires that the reader has access to an inclinometer.

The purpose of this protocol is to extend the validation of the skill “Maintain Safe Distance” when complex safetyrelated sensor systems (SRSS) are installed within the workcell, by characterizing th e SRSS performance. The characterization is based on the measurement of the response time of the system and results accuracy. Results are expressed in human operator position, human operator perimeter violation, human operator movement speed and a true/fal se detection of the human operator falling to ground.

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.

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.

This protocol is to be used to test the restraining energy that can be applied to a human subject during use of an exoskeleton used for gait support using an instrumented limb used in the medical domain as well as at . This protocol is both aimed at exoskeletons exoskeletons used in the industrial, logistics or agricultural domain Readiness Level Description .