TY - GEN
T1 - Psychological experiments on avoidance action characteristics for estimating avoidability of harm to eyes from robots
AU - Hattori, Takamasa
AU - Yamada, Yoji
AU - Mori, Shuji
AU - Okamoto, Shogo
AU - Hara, Susumu
PY - 2012/12/1
Y1 - 2012/12/1
N2 - In this study, psychological experiments are conducted to investigate harm-avoidance action characteristics in humans in close contact with robotic devices. For the experiments, a situation is created in which the sharp end-effector tip of a robot suddenly approaches the eyes of a facing participant. The avoidance reaction time is defined as the time interval from the beginning of the end-effector motion to when the participant begins movement to avoid harm. The results suggest that the avoidance reaction time does not depend on the type of work being performed but on the initial distance between the human's eyes and the approaching object. Using this information, safe human-robot working distances can be determined.
AB - In this study, psychological experiments are conducted to investigate harm-avoidance action characteristics in humans in close contact with robotic devices. For the experiments, a situation is created in which the sharp end-effector tip of a robot suddenly approaches the eyes of a facing participant. The avoidance reaction time is defined as the time interval from the beginning of the end-effector motion to when the participant begins movement to avoid harm. The results suggest that the avoidance reaction time does not depend on the type of work being performed but on the initial distance between the human's eyes and the approaching object. Using this information, safe human-robot working distances can be determined.
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U2 - 10.1109/IROS.2012.6385769
DO - 10.1109/IROS.2012.6385769
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84872341357
SN - 9781467317375
T3 - IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
SP - 5400
EP - 5405
BT - 2012 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2012
T2 - 25th IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Robotics and Intelligent Systems, IROS 2012
Y2 - 7 October 2012 through 12 October 2012
ER -