Safety Map: A Unified Representation for Biomechanics Impact Data and Robot Instantaneous Dynamic Properties

Close physical human-robot interaction makes it essential to ensure human safety. In particular, the intrinsic safety characteristics of a robot in terms of potential human injury have to be understood well. Then, minimal potential harm can be made a key requirement already at an early stage of the robot design. In this letter, we propose the safety map concept, a map that captures human injury oc...