Increasing demand for automation and recent intact trends have accelerated the employment of robots in manufacturing and service areas. Thus, there is a growing demand for easier and safer operation of robots, both by experts and non-professionals. This paper proposes a detachable smart robot teaching device with collision prediction to meet such demands. The proposed device is composed of two modules. One is for easy teaching based on a 6D mouse, and the other is for safe operation by measuring the distance to the surrounding obstacles and predicting the collision situation. The teaching module is used only in a teaching phase and can be separated afterward. A prototype is implemented, and the performance is verified through experiments with a collaborative robot.
*This work was supported partially by Korea Institute of Energy Technology Evaluation and Planning(KETEP) grant funded by the Korea government(MOTIE) (20202020800020) and partially by the Ministry of Trade, Industry & Energy and KEIT under program number 10063413. *Corresponsing author 1H. Do, H. Kim, T. Choi and J. Park are with the Department of Robotics and Mechatronics, Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials(KIMM), Daejeon 34103, Republic of Korea hmdo@kimm.re.kr 2U. Kim is with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ajou University, Suwon 16499, Republic of Korea
