Events and Trade Shows

WS#13 Industrial Robotics Safety: Challenges, Methods, and Strategies

Moderators: Magnus Albert, SICK AG, and José Saenz, Fraunhofer IFF

Questions to be Answered

Novel technologies enable innovation in industrial robotics. However, these innovations will only be accepted, if they prove to be safe. Continuing the series of successful workshops at the past editions of the euRobotics Forum, we will present and discuss new methodologies and approaches to guarantee the health and wellbeing of the users - also beyond the well known state of the art. This year’s workshop will focus along the following guiding questions:

• Can innovation in robotics be facilitated by adopting automotive grade ready-to-use solutions and technologies?
• Is it possible to assess the safety of a robot in a given context at runtime and what would be appropriate methods and models?
• What are the trends in robot safety research, and what challenges arise in transferring these findings to industrial applications?

Description

The workshop brings together safety experts along the whole life-cycle of robotics. Following up on our previous workshops we would like to continue our joint efforts to enable innovations by novel methods and technologies ensuring the safety of robotics systems. This year’s workshop will focus on dynamic aspects at runtime and will focus on three main aspects: Can dynamic high-level robot control be facilitated by incorporating functional safe operating systems developed for automotive use cases? Which novel functionality may be part of dynamic risk-reduction measures at runtime? How can flexibility and adaptability of robotics systems benefit from verification at runtime?

Organisation of the Workshop

• 11:10 a.m. to 11:15 a.m.
  Introduction: Brief introduction outlining workshop objectives and overview of Hybrid Production Systems
• 11:15 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
  Impulse Talk 1: Functional Safe Robotic Operations
  Ulrich Kirchmaier, Elektrobit Automotive GmbH, Germany
• 11:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.
  Impulse Talk 2: Key Practical Challenges in Assessing Functional Safety at Run-Time
  Federico Vicentini, Boston Dynamics, USA
• 11:45 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
  Impulse Talk 3: Runtime Verification to Enhance Safety in Flexible Robot Applications
  Michael Rathmair, Joanneum Research Robotics, Austria
• 12:00 p.m. to 12:30 p.m.
  Interactive Part – Fishbowl Discussion: Engaging discussion with the three speakers and audience experts to identify milestones and key challenges

Intended Outcome

• Bring together safety experts from different domains
• Strengthen the euRobotics network’s safety competence and the collaboration between TG safety, TG industrial robotics, TG Standardisation
• Engage in pre-standardization to facilitate the establishment of novel methods and technologies in standards