Abstract
AbstractOne of the key issues in human-machine collaboration is human safety. Safe human-robot interaction can be implemented using an electronic skin (e-skin) that detects the human’s proximity to the collaborative robot (cobot) casing even before the collision with the machine. The detection delay of such a situation should be as small as possible to be able to stop the machine safely. This paper presents an analysis of the results of estimating the proximity of a human to a robot with an electronic skin placed on its surface. The proximity estimation system works by measuring the capacitance of an open capacitor, and the placement of the capacitor on the conductive robot case significantly affects system performance. This paper outlines which parameters have the most important influence on this performance.
Publisher
Springer Nature Switzerland