@incollection{WendtHimmelsbachLaietal.2020,
  author    = {Thomas Wendt and Urban Himmelsbach and Matthias Lai and Matthias Wa{\"s}mer},
  title     = {Time-of-Flight Cameras Enabling Collaborative Robots for Improved Safety in Medical Applications},
  series = {Robotic Systems: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications},
  publisher = {Business Science Reference},
  organization    = {Information Resources Management Association (USA)},
  isbn      = {978-1-7998-1754-3 (Print)},
  doi       = {10.4018/978-1-7998-1754-3.ch032},
  pages     = {614 -- 622},
  year      = {2020},
  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.},
  language  = {en}
}