Modeling human-robots teams to optimize their safety

Since the start of the first industrial revolution in the late 18th century, machines have been used to support people in difficult tasks. To keep people safe when using these machines, people and machines are usually kept separate in accordance with current health and safety requirements (European Directive 2006/42/EG machinery, Appendix 1). Recent developments have introduced so called cobots or cooperative robots (in the remainder of this...