Kuka Systems Gmbh

Andreas Domke

Konrad Wirth

Thomas Rau

Richard Zunke

Julian Stockschläder

Simon Klumpp

Willi Klumpp

Reinhard Neureiter

Matthias Reichenbach

Otmar Honsberg

Robert Haman

Michael Zürn

Ralf Kühnemann

Christian Eberdt

Kurt Strauss

Alexander Gürtler

A human-robot cooperation (HRC) workstation has a programmable industrial robot () and a manual working area () for a worker () in a region surrounding the industrial robot (). In the HRC workstation (), the working areas of the industrial robot () and the worker () overlap. Contact between the worker () and the industrial robot () is possible. The workstation () is divided into a plurality of different zones () having differently high levels of risk of hazard from the industrial robot () for the worker (). The industrial robot () is suitable for human-robot cooperation.

Workstation

A detection device and a detection method are provided for robot-induced loads that can act upon the human body in contact with the robot during a working process. The robot-induced loads, in particular forces, are measured by the measuring device () of an external sensing device (). The measuring device () is suitably positioned and oriented in this process in the working area of an industrial robot () by means of a positioning device ().

Detection device and detection method

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Andreas Domke