Ensuring Robot-Human Safety for the BD Spot Using Active Visual Tracking and NMPC With Velocity Obstacles

When humans and robots operate in and occupy the same local space, proximity detection and proactive collision avoidance is of high importance. As legged robots, such as the Boston Dynamics (BD) Spot, start to appear in real-world application environments, ensuring safe robot-human interactions whil...

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Main Authors: Samuel Karlsson, Bjorn Lindqvist, George Nikolakopulos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2022-01-01
Series:IEEE Access
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9885187/