Human-robot cooperation: safe pick-and-place operations
Thorsten Gecks, Dominik Henrich · 2006
We present an industrial robot system whose workspace is supervised by several stationary cameras to ensure safe human-robot cooperations. All robot transfer motions are checked for collision by detecting obstacles using a difference image method. Whenever a collision is detected, the robot motion path is changed accordingly. The presented algorithm enables robots to perform safe pick-and-place operations exhibiting real time behaviour through efficient image processing.