On Using Neural Networks to Learn Safety Speed Reduction in Human-Robot Collaboration: A Comparative Analysis

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Autores principales: Faroni, Marco, Spanò, Alessio, Zanchettin, Andrea M., Rocco, Paolo
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Publicado: 2025
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author Faroni, Marco
Spanò, Alessio
Zanchettin, Andrea M.
Rocco, Paolo
author_facet Faroni, Marco
Spanò, Alessio
Zanchettin, Andrea M.
Rocco, Paolo
contents In Human-Robot Collaboration, safety mechanisms such as Speed and Separation Monitoring and Power and Force Limitation dynamically adjust the robot's speed based on human proximity. While essential for risk reduction, these mechanisms introduce slowdowns that makes cycle time estimation a hard task and impact job scheduling efficiency. Existing methods for estimating cycle times or designing schedulers often rely on predefined safety models, which may not accurately reflect real-world safety implementations, as these depend on case-specific risk assessments. In this paper, we propose a deep learning approach to predict the robot's safety scaling factor directly from process execution data. We analyze multiple neural network architectures and demonstrate that a simple feed-forward network effectively estimates the robot's slowdown. This capability is crucial for improving cycle time predictions and designing more effective scheduling algorithms in collaborative robotic environments.
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spellingShingle On Using Neural Networks to Learn Safety Speed Reduction in Human-Robot Collaboration: A Comparative Analysis
Faroni, Marco
Spanò, Alessio
Zanchettin, Andrea M.
Rocco, Paolo
Robotics
In Human-Robot Collaboration, safety mechanisms such as Speed and Separation Monitoring and Power and Force Limitation dynamically adjust the robot's speed based on human proximity. While essential for risk reduction, these mechanisms introduce slowdowns that makes cycle time estimation a hard task and impact job scheduling efficiency. Existing methods for estimating cycle times or designing schedulers often rely on predefined safety models, which may not accurately reflect real-world safety implementations, as these depend on case-specific risk assessments. In this paper, we propose a deep learning approach to predict the robot's safety scaling factor directly from process execution data. We analyze multiple neural network architectures and demonstrate that a simple feed-forward network effectively estimates the robot's slowdown. This capability is crucial for improving cycle time predictions and designing more effective scheduling algorithms in collaborative robotic environments.
title On Using Neural Networks to Learn Safety Speed Reduction in Human-Robot Collaboration: A Comparative Analysis
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17579