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

Thomas M. Wendt, Urban B. Himmelsbach, Matthias Lai and Matthias Waßmer
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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

International Journal of Interdisciplinary Telecommunications and Networking (IJITN), 2017, vol. 9, issue 4, 10-17

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.

Date: 2017
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