An STPA Safety Analysis Case Study of a Collaborative Robot Application

The technology for collaborative robots and the way these technologies are used in current socio-technical work systems rapidly evolving industrial applications. In absence of prescribed safety assessment methods from normative standards, this paper explores capabilities an STPA analysis behaviour robot We applied to a with heavy-load manipulating arm gripper, mounted on AGV-type mobile base. scope is limited single AGV mode controller. It thinking analysis, which principles can be several types