Mobile robot safety policy in terms of functional and degraded modes of operation


Planning of safe and legible trajectories for a robot manipulator in vicinity of humans


Exploitation of sensorless collision detection algorithms for robots with rigid or elastic joints


Definition of fast and safe robot reaction strategies in the joint space


Task-preserving reaction schemes in response to detected collisions


Experimental verification on lightweight manipulator for collisions with testbed mechanism, crash tests with dummies, and contacts with human upper limbs and trunk


Design, construction and testing of new single-DOF variable-stiffness actuator