Study Findings on Risk Management Published by a Researcher at Norwegian University of Life Sciences (Towards Safe Robotic Agricultural Applications: Safe Navigation System Design for a Robotic Grass-Mowing Application through the Risk …): Risk Management

2023 MAY 10 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- New research on risk management is the subject of a new report. According to news reporting from As, Norway, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “Safe navigation is a key objective for autonomous applications, particularly those involving mobile tasks, to avoid dangerous situations and prevent harm to humans.”

The news journalists obtained a quote from the research from Norwegian University of Life Sciences: “However, the integration of a risk management process is not yet mandatory in robotics development. Ensuring safety using mobile robots is critical for many real-world applications, especially those in which contact with the robot could result in fatal consequences, such as agricultural environments where a mobile device with an industrial cutter is used for grass-mowing.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “In this paper, we propose an explicit integration of a risk management process into the design of the software for an autonomous grass mower, with the aim of enhancing safety. Our approach is tested and validated in simulated scenarios that assess the effectiveness of different custom safety functionalities in terms of collision prevention, execution time, and the number of required human interventions.”

For more information on this research see: Towards Safe Robotic Agricultural Applications: Safe Navigation System Design for a Robotic Grass-Mowing Application through the Risk Management Method. Robotics, 2023,12(3). (Robotics - http://www.mdpi.com/journal/robotics). The publisher for Robotics is MDPI AG.

A free version of this journal article is available at https://doi.org/10.3390/robotics12030063.

Our news editors report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Jose Carlos Mayoral Banos, Faculty of Science and Technology, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 1430 As, Norway. Additional authors for this research include Pal Johan From, Grzegorz Cielniak.

ORCID is an identifier for authors and includes bibliographic information. The following is ORCID information for the author of this research: Grzegorz Cielniak (http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6299-8465).

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