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Robot Safety & Standards Course

This document provides information about the course "Robot Safety and Standards" offered as an open elective course for the BE Robotics and Automation program at PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore. The course aims to teach students how to safely handle robots, perform reliability analysis and identify robot failures, discuss ethical issues in robot deployment, describe national robot standards, and discuss robot testing methods. The course syllabus covers topics like robot safety basics, reliability analysis, roboethics, robot standards, and robot testing over 45 lecture hours. Required textbooks and references are also listed.

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Robot Safety & Standards Course

This document provides information about the course "Robot Safety and Standards" offered as an open elective course for the BE Robotics and Automation program at PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore. The course aims to teach students how to safely handle robots, perform reliability analysis and identify robot failures, discuss ethical issues in robot deployment, describe national robot standards, and discuss robot testing methods. The course syllabus covers topics like robot safety basics, reliability analysis, roboethics, robot standards, and robot testing over 45 lecture hours. Required textbooks and references are also listed.

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Department of Robotics and Automation Engineering

PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore

Course Title ROBOT SAFETY AND STANDARDS


Course Code 19RO02
Programme BE- Robotics and Automation
L Lecture : 3
Credit Hours T Tutorial : 0
P Practical : 0
Course Credits C 3
Course Category OE Open Elective
Course Learning Outcomes

After the end of the course, students will be able to:

CO1: Plan safe ways of handling robots.

CO2: Examine the reliability analysis for robotic system and identify the causes of robot failure.

CO3: Explain the ethical issues involved in robot deployment.

CO4: Describe the different national standards used in Robotics

CO5: Discuss the robot testing methods and the procedures

Course Contribution to Program Outcomes

Course Program Outcome


Outcome PO1 PO2 PO3 PO4 PO5 PO6 PO7 PO8 PO9 PO10 PO11 PO12 PSO1 PSO2

CO1 3 2 2 3 - 3 3 2 3 3 3 3 3 3
CO2 3 3 3 3 2 3 3 2 3 3 3 3 3 3
CO3 2 2 1 2 - 3 3 3 2 2 1 3 3 3
CO4 3 2 2 2 - 3 2 - 2 1 - 3 3 3
CO5 3 2 3 2 3 3 2 1 3 2 2 3 3 3
SYLLABUS
19RO02 ROBOT SAFETY AND STANDARDS

3003

ROBOT SAFETY: Safety basics and features, need for safety and the role of engineers with
respect to safety, methods for performing safety analysis of robot systems, roles of robot
manufacturers and users in robot safety, safety considerations in robot design, installation and
operations, robot safeguard approaches, workplace safety. (10)

ROBOT SYSTEM RELIABILITY: Reliability basics and configurations, methods for performing
reliability analysis of Robot Systems, Classifications of Robot failures and their causes and
corrective measures, Robot Effectiveness Dictating Factors, Robot-related reliability measures,
Robot reliability analysis. (8)

ROBOETHICS: Roboethics and levels of Robomorality, Ethics fundamental elements and


theories, Top-Down and bottom-up Roboethics Approach, Ethics in Human-Robot Symbiosis,
Robot Rights, Socialized Roboethics, Ethical Issues of Socialized Robots, Case Studies,
Additional Roboethics Issues. (9)

ROBOT STANDARDS: The concept of standard and standardization, characteristics and


benefits of standardisation, standardisation bodies, standard-setting, Robot Standards:
Electrical interfaces on robots for industrial environments- End-effector, Manipulating
industrial robots — Mechanical interfaces, safety requirements for robotics in industrial
environment, Safety design for industrial robot systems, Connectors for electronic equipment.
Safety of machinery, Performance criteria and related test methods for service robots,
Coordinate systems and motion nomenclatures. (10)

ROBOT TESTING: Robot performance testing methods: Test-Robot program method, Ford
method, IPA- Stuttgard method, National Bureau of Standards method, Robot reliability testing,
Robot testing and start-up safety-related factors, Testing equipments and procedures-Test
reports. (8)
Total L: 45

TEXT BOOKS:
1. B. S. Dhillon, Robot System Reliability and Safety: A modern Approach, CRC Press, Taylor &
Francis Group, 2015.
2. Spyros G, Taffetas, Roboethics: A Navigating Overview, 1st Edition, Springer, 2016.

REFERENCES:
1. Paolo Barattini, Federico Vicentini, Human-Robot Interaction: Safety, Standardization, and
Benchmarking, CRC Press, 2019
2. Abney, Keith, Bekey, George A, Lin, Patrick, Robot Ethics : The Ethical and Social
Implications of Robotics, The MIT Press, 2012
3. ISO/TC 299, Robotics, ISO, 2018
4. Sumit Bisht, Robot Framework Test Automation, PACKT Publishing, 2013.

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