Human factors in cobot era: a review of modern production systems features

M Faccio, I Granata, A Menini, M Milanese… - Journal of Intelligent …, 2023 - Springer
Collaborative robots are increasingly common in modern production systems, since they
allow to merge the productivity of automated systems with the flexibility and dexterity of …

Variable stiffness and antagonist actuation for cable-driven manipulators inspired by the bird neck

V Muralidharan, N Testard… - Journal of …, 2023 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
This paper discusses stiffness and antagonistic actuation in light-weight cable-driven bio-
inspired manipulators suitable for safe interactions. Manipulators under study are built upon …

Design and control of a discrete variable stiffness actuator with instant stiffness switch for safe human-robot interaction

I Hussain, A Albalasie, MI Awad, K Tamizi, Z Niu… - IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Variable Stiffness Actuators (VSA) have been proposed as an alternative actuation system
for manipulators that are utilized for safe physical Human-Robot Interaction (pHRI) …

Stiffness modeling of a variable stiffness compliant link

T Morrison, HJ Su - Mechanism and Machine Theory, 2020 - Elsevier
Recently, a variable stiffness robotic link based on the rotating beam concept has been
developed for applications in physical human robot interaction. A substantial challenge for …

A comparative study on the effect of mechanical compliance for a safe physical human–robot interaction

Y She, S Song, HJ Su, J Wang - Journal of …, 2020 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
In this paper, we study the effects of mechanical compliance on safety in physical human–
robot interaction (pHRI). More specifically, we compare the effect of joint compliance and link …