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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 17, 2014
Kuka Systems Gmbh, Augsburg, DE;
Robert Haman, Augsburg, DE;
Richard Zunke, Augsburg, DE;
Willi Klumpp, Ostfildern, DE;
Michael Zürn, Sindelfingen, DE;
Ralf Kühnemann, München, DE;
Otmar Honsberg, Fürstenfeldbruck, DE;
Matthias Reichenbach, Stuttgart, DE;
Simon Klumpp, Neuhausen, DE;
Andreas Domke, Stuttgart, DE;
Konrad Wirth, Tiefenbronn, DE;
Christian Eberdt, Stuttgart, DE;
Kurt Strauss, Wildberg, DE;
Alexander Gürtler, Heidese, DE;
Reinhard Neureiter, München, DE;
Thomas Rau, Diedorf, DE;
Julian Stockschläder, Ulm, DE;
KUKA SYSTEMS GMBH, Augsburg, DE;
Abstract
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.