Collaborative robotics is an umbrella term that conveys the general idea of proximity
between machines and humans for some useful tasks in a shared space, with a range of …

With power comes responsibility: as robots become more advanced and prevalent, the role
they will play in human society becomes increasingly important. Given that violence is an …

According to the standard ISO 10218–2, industrial robot systems must be subjected to a risk
assessment prior to commissioning. In current industrial practice, risk assessments are …

New safety critical systems are about to appear in our everyday life: advanced robots able to
interact with humans and perform tasks at home, in hospitals, or at work. A hazardous …

Collaborative robotics is recently taking an ever-increasing role in modern industrial
environments like manufacturing, warehouses, mining, agriculture and others. This trend …

A crucial aspect of physical human-robot collaboration (HRC) is to maintain a safe common
workspace for human operator. However, close proximity between human-robot and …

We present an approach for the verification and validation (V&V) of robot assistants in the
context of human–robot interactions, to demonstrate their trustworthiness through …

Abstract Model-based safety assessment (MBSA) has been one of the major research
thrusts of the System Safety Engineering community for about three decades. It has attracted …

Whereas in classic robotic applications there is a clear segregation between robots and
operators, novel robotic and cyber-physical systems have evolved in size and functionality to …

Building a safety case is a common approach to make expert judgement explicit about safety
of a system. The issue of confidence in such argumentation is still an open research field …