@article{WendtHimmelsbachLaietal.2017,
  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   = {International Journal of Interdisciplinary Telecommunications and Networking : IJITN},
  volume    = {9},
  number    = {4},
  isbn      = {9781522512660 (EISBN13)},
  issn      = {1941-8663},
  doi       = {10.4018/IJITN.2017100102},
  pages     = {10 -- 17},
  year      = {2017},
  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}
}