TY - CHAP U1 - Buchbeitrag A1 - Wendt, Thomas A1 - Himmelsbach, Urban A1 - Lai, Matthias A1 - Waßmer, Matthias T1 - Time-of-Flight Cameras Enabling Collaborative Robots for Improved Safety in Medical Applications T2 - Robotic Systems: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications N2 - 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. Y1 - 2020 SN - 978-1-7998-1754-3 (Print) SB - 978-1-7998-1754-3 (Print) U6 - https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-1754-3.ch032 DO - https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-1754-3.ch032 SP - 614 EP - 622 S1 - 9 PB - Business Science Reference ER -