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A Systematic Approach to Developing Safe Tele-operated Robots

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Tele–operated service robots are used for extending human capabilities in hazardous and/or inaccessible environments. Their use is undergoing an exponential increase in our society, reason why it is of vital importance that their design, installation and operation follow the strictest possible process, so that the risk of accident could be minimised. However, there is no such process or methodology that guides the full process from identification, evaluation, proposal of solutions and reuse of safety requirements, although a hard work is being done, specially by the standardisation committees. It’s also very difficult to even find in the literature examples of safety requirements identification and use. This paper presents the engineering process we have followed to obtain the safety requirements in one of the robots of the EFTCoR project and the way this requirements have affected the architecture of the system, with a practical example: a crane robot for ship hull blasting.

This work has been partially supported by the Spanish Government programs CICYT, ANCLA (TIC2003-07804-C05-02), part of DYNAMICA (DYNamic and Aspect-Oriented Modeling for Integrated Component-based Architectures).

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Alonso, D., Sánchez, P., Álvarez, B., Pastor, J.A. (2006). A Systematic Approach to Developing Safe Tele-operated Robots. In: Pinho, L.M., González Harbour, M. (eds) Reliable Software Technologies – Ada-Europe 2006. Ada-Europe 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4006. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11767077_10

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