Challenges in the Safety-Security Co-Assurance of Collaborative Industrial Robots

TL;DR

This paper reviews the challenges and recent advances in ensuring both safety and security in collaborative industrial robots, emphasizing the need for integrated assurance approaches in manufacturing environments.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive summary of current methods and highlights key procedural and technological challenges in co-assuring safety and security for collaborative robots.

Findings

Highlights the complexity of co-assuring safety and security.

Identifies recent challenges in human-robot collaboration.

Suggests future research directions for integrated assurance.

Abstract

The coordinated assurance of interrelated critical properties, such as system safety and cyber-security, is one of the toughest challenges in critical systems engineering. In this chapter, we summarise approaches to the coordinated assurance of safety and security. Then, we highlight the state of the art and recent challenges in human-robot collaboration in manufacturing both from a safety and security perspective. We conclude with a list of procedural and technological issues to be tackled in the coordinated assurance of collaborative industrial robots.