ROBOT SAFETY KNOWLEDGE
Find robot safety standards, research papers, technical reports and validation resources with their original sources and editions.
Technical report
Manufacturer instructions provide model-specific context for field design and response time. Apply the matching scanner model, document revision and configuration; the full manual is not republished here.
Read the recordTechnical resource
Manufacturer explanations cover safety functions, enabling devices and transition topics related to the 2025 robot standards. Verify statements against the actual robot, software revision and certificate scope.
Read the recordStandard
Robot-level safety reference for industrial robots. Distinguish the supplied robot from the integrated cell in the project source register.
Read the recordStandard
Integration reference for industrial robot applications and cells. Relevant to tooling, access, surrounding equipment and operating modes.
Read the recordTechnical report
INRS offers a methodological resource for companies and integrators addressing prevention during collaborative robot integration, including work organization and human interaction.
Read the recordStandard
Positioning reference for protective equipment and guards relative to human approach. Relevant to scanner and interlocked-access assessments where timing and geometry matter.
Read the recordStandard
Design and selection reference for guard interlocking devices, including foreseeable attempts to defeat them.
Read the recordStandard
Test-method reference for measuring force and pressure in human-robot contact. Useful for organizing evidence for power-and-force-limited applications.
Read the recordStandard
Safety and verification reference for driverless industrial trucks and systems, including relevant AMR applications. Check the operating zone and product scope. A revision is under development.
Read the recordResearch paper
The manuscript adds barrier-function constraints to diffusion planning and evaluates selected maze, locomotion and manipulation tasks. It is relevant to examining how a generative planner can respect an explicitly modeled constraint.
Read the recordStandard
Reference edition for safety-related control design. Connect it to robot application requirements and evidence for each safety function.
Read the recordResearch paper
A retrospective study examines robot-related occupational fatalities within a defined surveillance period and case method. It does not establish current incidence or product conformity.
Read the recordResearch paper
The benchmark provides constrained cart-pole and quadrotor simulation tasks, with controlled disturbances. It supports comparisons of controller performance, data use and constraint violations under a shared experimental setup.
Read the recordResearch paper
A review connects model uncertainty, learning-based control, reinforcement learning and methods for checking learned policies. It helps organize the assumptions and evidence needed when a learned controller acts on a robot.
Read the recordTechnical report
A practical INRS publication examines health and safety consequences of adopting collaborative robots. Use it before assuming that working near a robot automatically improves conditions.
Read the recordResearch paper
The work formulates robot collision constraints with measurement and motion uncertainty and evaluates the approach in simulation. It provides a reference for examining how uncertainty assumptions enter a safety argument.
Read the recordStandard
Technical-report reference for end-effector design and integration. Keep gripping, tooling and retained-load hazards within the cell assessment.
Read the recordStandard
Reference for preventing unexpected machine start-up during intervention. Relevant to reset, restart and stored-energy assumptions in robot access procedures.
Read the recordStandard
Technical-report reference for safeguarding manual robot loading and unloading stations. Check its historical connection to the 2011 integration standard when applying current editions.
Read the recordResearch paper
Research discusses sensing for safe collaboration and how performance should be characterized. It helps connect a sensor specification to measured safety evidence.
Read the recordResearch paper
A controller modification framework accounts for different robot acceleration limits and local neighbor dynamics. The source reports simulation and a mobile-robot experiment, providing a concrete study of model-based collision constraints.
Read the recordResearch paper
Research connects protective-distance inputs to implementation and analytical tests in collaborative workcells. Application-specific timing and geometry remain necessary.
Read the recordStandard
Collaborative industrial robotics reference associated with ISO 10218. Record how this edition is used with newer robot and cell standards.
Read the recordStandard
Emergency-stop function reference. Assess it separately from protective stopping and restart during routine robot cell access.
Read the recordStandard
Personal care robot safety reference. Verify its stated robot scope before using it for service or humanoid robots. A service-robot revision is at final-draft stage.
Read the recordStandard
Validation part of ISO 13849. The catalogue identifies a revision under development, so retain the edition in validation records.
Read the recordTechnical report
NIST describes a prototype testbed for evaluating speed and separation monitoring. Its 2012 context predates the published ISO/TS 15066 and should be retained when interpreting results.
Read the recordStandard
General machinery risk-assessment reference for identifying hazards and planning risk reduction before selecting a control-system architecture.
Read the recordResearch paper
The article examines injury mechanisms through robot impact studies and analysis of constrained contact. It is a historical research reference for considering mass, speed and the circumstances of human contact.
Read the recordEngineering guide
A component data sheet is an input to an integrated assessment.
Read the recordEngineering guide
Connect AI outputs to physical actions and the evidence needed to trust them.
Read the recordTechnical report
The completed research project developed a toolkit and test protocols for collaborative robot safety assessment. Check linked tool availability and the standard editions underlying each protocol.
Read the recordHypothetical design case
A proposed access sequence with two safety questions and explicit evidence gaps.
Read the recordTechnical resource
IFA describes collaborative robot safety research and assessment resources, including contact and collision measurement. The application and exposed body regions remain part of the assessment.
Read the recordTechnical resource
Official guides explain modelling and library workflows for SISTEMA. Match the relevant cookbook to the software version and safety-function assumptions.
Read the recordTechnical resource
Official entry for the SISTEMA calculation assistant. Record the tool version and assess the complete safety function, architecture and reliability inputs.
Read the recordEngineering guide
Use a bibliography with clear boundaries for each reference.
Read the recordHypothetical design case
Follow the whole function and distinguish device data from achieved PL.
Read the recordTechnical resource
NIOSH outlines occupational risks from traditional and emerging robots, including prevention and research needs. Use it to identify exposed people and tasks.
Read the recordTechnical resource
Inspection-oriented guidance covers robot system hazards, risk assessment, safeguarding and validation. Check the cited editions against the project requirements.
Read the recordTechnical resource
Register links US workplace provisions and robotics consensus standards. Determine the relevant duties and edition for the specific installation.
Read the recordEngineering guide
Record why a safety function needs its target level.
Read the recordEngineering guide
Name the task before deciding what a stop must accomplish.
Read the recordHypothetical design case
Trace detection to stopped motion, then assess the available distance.
Read the recordEngineering guide
Start with the hazardous event and the intended response.
Read the recordEngineering guide
Make expected behavior, test conditions and recorded results traceable.
Read the record