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Safety simulation with robotic manufacturing systems.

Etherton-J

Advances in industrial ergonomics and safety I. Mital A, ed., Philadelphia PA: Taylor and Francis, 1989 Jan; 1:617-622

20030824

Simulation can provide a nonhazardous method for testing various equipment and workstation designs before selecting a final design to implement in the workplace. Simulation is especially useful for identifying problems that may arise when people use newly developed equipment and technologies, such as robotic manufacturing systems. Investigators in the United States, Canada, and Japan have devised experiments based upon the premise that workers will react to simulated occupational accidents and actual accident or injury situations in a similar manner. Simulation experiments have been designed to examine the speed of the robot arm as a safety factor and the ability of capacitance sensors to detect human movement near robots. This paper reviews current and future opportunities for simulating human and machine interaction in robotic manufacturing systems.

Robotics; Safety-programs; Safety-equipment; Safety-measures; Equipment-reliability; Accident-prevention; Accident-rates; Simulation-methods; Computer-aided-manufacturing; Computer-software

19890101

Conference/Symposia Proceedings

Mital-A

1989

0850664934

DSR

Advances in industrial ergonomics and safety I. Proceedings of the Annual International Industrial Ergonomics and Safety Conference held in Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.A., 5-9 June 1989. The Official Conference of the International Foundation for Industrial Ergonomics and Safety Research

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