Systematic approach to consider HRC in early design phase.

The design of Human-Robot-Collaboration (HRC) applications faces many challenges especially in the early design phase. One important issue is the different interests of system designer and safety engineers during the design. The interest conflict leads to high coordination effort and optimization loops to generate a solution, which meets the given process requirements. This paper presents a systematic approach for the system designer to consider safety in the early design phase of HRC applications. The described approach is basis for a future software tool, which supports the system designer to generate first HRC safety concepts. Therefore, the paper presents the general architecture and explains the three main modules of the tool approach: main safety principles definitions, safety capability taxonomy and the usage of look-up tables. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]