Multilayered Dynamic Safety for High-Payload Collaborative Robotic Applications

In this paper, we describe our experiences on experimenting multilayered dynamic safety components for high-payload collaborative robotic applications. In these applications, guaranteed safety for the collaborating human worker is the most important requirement that needs to be satisfied. In addition, collaborative applications have to be effective, flexible and fluent to increase productivity in the manufacturing process. Our work relates to the Intelligent Factory Concept developed in the TRINITY project. We present the multilayered architecture, components, and experiences from our dynamic safety system