Detection Characteristics and The Optimal Position of Radio Wave Sensors for The Design of A Safety-Related Sensor System
Sennin Mikihiro, Yoji Yamada, Syogo OKAMOTO · The Proceedings of JSME annual Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics (Robomec) · 2018
Collaborative operation between a human and a robot is desired to be achieved at various manufacturing sites. Our research team picked up a radio wave sensor as a safety related one. The objective of this study is to design a sensor system that detects the 2D position of an approaching human by use of multiple sensors. This paper firstly investigates the directivity of each of the sensors, and discusses the optimal distance between two sensors. More specifically, the optimization of the length between the two sensors was examined by simulations in which the detection error of the sensors are taken into account.