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Guaranteeing motion safety for robots

Guaranteeing motion safety for robots Auton Robot (2012) 32:173–175 DOI 10.1007/s10514-012-9278-z Thierry Fraichard · James J. Kuffner Jr. Received: 18 January 2012 / Accepted: 25 January 2012 / Published online: 7 February 2012 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012 1 Introduction having an incorrect understanding of its environment (e.g. false negative). In the near future, it is expected that robotic systems will • Reasoning errors, i.e. at a certain point a wrong decision share the human living and working spaces: service robots was made. and cybernetic transport systems are examples of two pri- The purpose of this special issue of Autonomous Robots is mary application areas. The technology is now mature; we to explore the motion safety issue from the decision-making have already witnessed autonomous mobile robots guiding point of view (fourth item of the list above) assuming that people in museums and automated cars driving on the road the robotic system at hand is working alright (from the hard- network. ware and software point of view) and has an accurate under- While moving (especially at high speed), automated ve- standing of its current situation (no perceptual errors). hicles, mobile manipulators and humanoid robots can be po- Roboticists have long been aware of the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Autonomous Robots Springer Journals

Guaranteeing motion safety for robots

Autonomous Robots , Volume 32 (3) – Feb 7, 2012

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Publisher
Springer Journals
Copyright
Copyright © 2012 by Springer Science+Business Media, LLC
Subject
Engineering; Control, Robotics, Mechatronics; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Robotics and Automation; Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics
ISSN
0929-5593
eISSN
1573-7527
DOI
10.1007/s10514-012-9278-z
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Abstract

Auton Robot (2012) 32:173–175 DOI 10.1007/s10514-012-9278-z Thierry Fraichard · James J. Kuffner Jr. Received: 18 January 2012 / Accepted: 25 January 2012 / Published online: 7 February 2012 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012 1 Introduction having an incorrect understanding of its environment (e.g. false negative). In the near future, it is expected that robotic systems will • Reasoning errors, i.e. at a certain point a wrong decision share the human living and working spaces: service robots was made. and cybernetic transport systems are examples of two pri- The purpose of this special issue of Autonomous Robots is mary application areas. The technology is now mature; we to explore the motion safety issue from the decision-making have already witnessed autonomous mobile robots guiding point of view (fourth item of the list above) assuming that people in museums and automated cars driving on the road the robotic system at hand is working alright (from the hard- network. ware and software point of view) and has an accurate under- While moving (especially at high speed), automated ve- standing of its current situation (no perceptual errors). hicles, mobile manipulators and humanoid robots can be po- Roboticists have long been aware of the

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Published: Feb 7, 2012

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