TY  - JOUR
U1  - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed)
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
JF  - International Journal of Interdisciplinary Telecommunications and Networking : IJITN
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.
KW  - Robotics
Y1  - 2017
SN  - 1941-8663
SS  - 1941-8663
SN  - 1941-8671 (EISSN)
SS  - 1941-8671 (EISSN)
SN  - 9781522512660 (EISBN13)
SB  - 9781522512660 (EISBN13)
U6  - https://doi.org/10.4018/IJITN.2017100102
DO  - https://doi.org/10.4018/IJITN.2017100102
VL  - 9
IS  - 4
SP  - 10
EP  - 17
S1  - 8
ER  -