Development of an industrial robot manipulator for the easy and safe human-robot cooperation

An industrial manipulator for the easy and safe human-robot cooperation is under development and the research results will be introduced in this paper. Until now, it is difficult to operate the industrial robot manipulators for not-trained worker for the manipulator operation. Moreover, most of the industrial robot manipulators are used in the separated environments because it can harm the operator near the robot systems. For this reason, the final target of the research of this paper is to develop the industrial manipulator which can be easily operated by the not-trained workers for the manipulator operation and is safe even when the manipulator is operating near the operators. In this paper, the structural details of the manipulator under development will be introduced and the intuitive teaching method - direct teaching method - for the developed manipulator will be introduced also.