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From: davei@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Mr D Ingles)
Subject: Safety of large mobile robots
Message-ID: <1993Jun29.215740.17141@comp.lancs.ac.uk>
Organization: Department of Computing at Lancaster University, UK.
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1993 21:57:40 GMT
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Can anyone give me any information on what techniques are being used with 
regards to safety of large mobile robots.

I am interested in the safety of :

	a)people 
	b)property 

rather than the safety of the robot itself.

For example, there is a robot excavator here, what systems could be used to  
prevent this robot from :

	a)injuring / killing a person who enters the robot's workspace
 	b)digging a trench through the middle of a neighbour's house
	
Obviously the safety system has to be independant of the main control system 
but how should the safety system be arranged.

Any comments appreciated.

Davei 
