Towards Safe Human-Robot Collaboration Using Deep Reinforcement Learning

Mohamed El-Shamouty,Xinyang Wu,Shanqi Yang,Marcel Albus,Marco F. Huber,Mohamed El-Shamouty,Xinyang Wu,Shanqi Yang,Marcel Albus,Marco F. Huber

Safety in Human-Robot Collaboration (HRC) is a bottleneck to HRC-productivity in industry. With robots being the main source of hazards, safety engineers use over-emphasized safety measures, and carry out lengthy and expensive risk assessment processes on each HRC-layout reconfiguration. Recent advances in deep Reinforcement Learning (RL) offer solutions to add intelligence and comprehensibility o...