Safety Assessment of Human-Robot Collaborations Using Failure Mode and Effects Analysis and Bow-Tie Analysis

Abdelrhman Haggy, Abel Philip, Sneha Jacob, Juliane Schneider, Mohammed Anchukandan, Philipp Kranz, Marian Daun

2024

Abstract

Human-Robot collaboration is seen as chance to flexibilize modern production processes. The close interaction of humans and robots allows for fast semi-automation of process steps that cannot be fully automated or only at high cost. However, due to the close vicinity and complex interactions between human and robot establishing safety is challenging. Robotic safety is largely centered on machine safety and does not consider effects stemming from the runtime application. This paper investigates the use of failure mode and effects analysis and Bow-Tie Analysis for assessing the safety of human-robot collaborations. We applied the combined safety assessment approach to an industrial case example of a collaborative assembly process. Results show that safety analyses are applicable and particularly, the combination of top-down bow-tie and bottom-up failure mode and effects analysis is promising for the thorough assessment of dynamic human-robot collaboration applications.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Haggy A., Philip A., Jacob S., Schneider J., Anchukandan M., Kranz P. and Daun M. (2024). Safety Assessment of Human-Robot Collaborations Using Failure Mode and Effects Analysis and Bow-Tie Analysis. In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO; ISBN 978-989-758-717-7, SciTePress, pages 432-439. DOI: 10.5220/0013017500003822

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icinco24,
author={Abdelrhman Haggy and Abel Philip and Sneha Jacob and Juliane Schneider and Mohammed Anchukandan and Philipp Kranz and Marian Daun},
title={Safety Assessment of Human-Robot Collaborations Using Failure Mode and Effects Analysis and Bow-Tie Analysis},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO},
year={2024},
pages={432-439},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0013017500003822},
isbn={978-989-758-717-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO
TI - Safety Assessment of Human-Robot Collaborations Using Failure Mode and Effects Analysis and Bow-Tie Analysis
SN - 978-989-758-717-7
AU - Haggy A.
AU - Philip A.
AU - Jacob S.
AU - Schneider J.
AU - Anchukandan M.
AU - Kranz P.
AU - Daun M.
PY - 2024
SP - 432
EP - 439
DO - 10.5220/0013017500003822
PB - SciTePress