Experiments toward non-contact safety standards for automated industrial vehicles

Roger Bostelman; Tsai Hong; Raj Madhavan

doi:10.1117/12.602334

27 May 2005 Experiments toward non-contact safety standards for automated industrial vehicles

Roger Bostelman, Tsai Hong, Raj Madhavan

Proceedings Volume 5804, Unmanned Ground Vehicle Technology VII; (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.602334
Event: Defense and Security, 2005, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

The performance evaluation of an obstacle detection and segmentation algorithm for Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV) navigation in factory-like environments using a new 3D real-time range camera is the subject of this paper. Our approach expands on the US ASME B56.5 Safety Standard, which now allows for non-contact safety sensors, by performing tests on objects specifically sized in both the US and the British Safety Standards. These successful tests placed the recommended, as well as smaller, material-covered and sized objects on the vehicle path for static measurement. The segmented (mapped) obstacles were then verified in range to the objects and object size using simultaneous, absolute measurements obtained using a relatively accurate 2D scanning laser rangefinder. These 3D range cameras are expected to be relatively inexpensive and used indoors and possibly used outdoors for a vast amount of mobile robot applications building on experimental results explained in this paper.

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Roger Bostelman, Tsai Hong, and Raj Madhavan "Experiments toward non-contact safety standards for automated industrial vehicles", Proc. SPIE 5804, Unmanned Ground Vehicle Technology VII, (27 May 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.602334

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