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In recent years, collision safety between a human and a robot has been increasingly important along with the spread of service robots. Much research has been conducted on how to design a safe manipulator, but it is not applicable to real manipulators yet. To deal with this problem, we propose a guideline to design a safe manipulator, which is composed of two phases, the safety evaluation and design...
Recent advances in the study of human assistive robots have led to requests for ethical review for clinical trials during the development process. In this environment, many developers have found it difficult to understand the criteria for these ethical reviews. One of the basic reasons for this difficulty is the methodology in robotics. That is, trials in the development of robotics are characterized...
Following recent advances in robotics for supporting human activities, ethical reviews similar to those for medical research and development have been requested for clinical trials in the development process of this field of robotics. In this environment, many robot developers have found it difficult to understand the criteria for these ethical reviews. One of the basic reasons for this difficulty...
The future of robotics engineering is in the hands of engineers and must be handled to ensure the safety of all people and the reputation of the field. We are in the process of developing a code of ethics for professional robotics engineers to serve as a guideline for the ethical development of the field. This document contains the current version of this code and describes the methodology used in...
Behavioral aspects of medical guidelines can be modeled and formalized in a straightforward way by flow diagrams. However, safety plays a critical role in both modeling and formalization given the intermingled involvement of human actors and medical devices which have to interact and coordinate according to precise rules and strict timelines. Although state based formalisms can be shown to be very...
Human performance and human decision making is counted upon as a crucial aspect of overall system resilience. Advanced control systems have the potential to provide operators and asset owners a wide range of data, deployed at different levels that can be used to support operator situation awareness. However, the sheer amount of data available can make it challenging for operators to assimilate information...
Early guidelines and regulations concerning the exposure of personnel to radio frequency (RF) and microwave radiation were based on field intensity (or power density) limits. During the 1970s, however, specific absorption rate (SAR) was consistently shown to be a better index for describing RF and microwave bioeffects, and SAR has become the basis for the present ANSI standard. Typical SAR-based exposure...
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