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Design and safety control of a high-payload nursing robotic arm with tactile skin

  • Jiahao Wu
  • , Yanshu Song
  • , Hailin Huang
  • , Fei Liu
  • , Junan Chen
  • , Bing Li*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Service robots are being increasingly used to replace human beings in carrying out various sophisticated, heavy and even dangerous tasks. In order to solve the problem of labor shortage in the medical and nursing industry, this paper proposes a novel high-payload robotic arm for nursing tasks, which can help caregivers to lift and transfer patients. Firstly, we simulate and analyze the specific nursing tasks and application scenarios, and determine its kinematics configuration and load capacity parameters of each joint. Then we design and fabricate the modular and low flexibility robotic joints for the prototype. To avoid the occurrence of safety accidents while lifting patients, we design a new kind of tactile skin based on the resistance characteristic of varistor materials, using which a safety control algorithm is proposed. Experiments show that it can meet the requirements of load capacity and position control accuracy, and the proposed safety control method can effectively avoid many dangerous situations.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2019
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages2450-2455
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781728163215
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2019
Event2019 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2019 - Dali, China
Duration: 6 Dec 20198 Dec 2019

Publication series

NameIEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2019

Conference

Conference2019 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2019
Country/TerritoryChina
CityDali
Period6/12/198/12/19

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