Mansour Rahimi
Papers
11
Total Citations
184
H-Index
7
About
Mansour Rahimi is a pioneering researcher in industrial robotics safety and human-robot interaction, whose work from the mid-1980s through the early 1990s helped establish foundational principles for safe human operation in automated manufacturing environments. His research focused on understanding how workers perceive and respond to the dangers posed by industrial robots, addressing critical questions around safe speed thresholds, idle time misperception, and spatial safety zones. In his most cited work on computerized automation and robotics (1988, 41 citations), Rahimi examined how increasing automation affected overall plant safety performance, while a series of experimental studies explored how operators systematically misjudge robot arm speeds and safe distances — perceptual errors directly linked to serious workplace injuries and fatalities. His development of a research paradigm in human-robot interaction (1990, 24 citations) provided a structured framework that influenced subsequent scholarship in the field. Rahimi also applied systems safety methodologies, including energy barrier analysis, to evaluate and design robot safety systems. Collectively, his body of work bridged ergonomics, cognitive psychology, and industrial safety engineering, offering actionable insights for designing safer human-robot workspaces during a critical era of manufacturing automation.
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- 2Human perception of robot safe speed and idle time26 citations · 1990
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- 4A research paradigm in human-robot interaction24 citations · 1990
- 5Systems safety for robots: An energy barrier analysis23 citations · 1986
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- 8Perception of Safety Zone around an Industrial Robot6 citations · 1988
- 9System Safety Approach to Robot Safety5 citations · 1984
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