Moon Young Park

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Moon Young Park is a leading researcher in human-robot safety, specializing in the biomechanics of physical human-robot interaction. Their work focuses on establishing quantitative safety thresholds for collaborative robots, particularly through the assessment of pressure pain and injury mechanisms during collisions. Park’s most influential study, “Assessment of pressure pain thresholds in collisions with collaborative robots” (2019, 33 citations), provides critical data for designing safer robotic systems by defining the limits of human tolerance to mechanical contact. Expanding on this, their 2022 paper on pain onset and maximum bearable pain thresholds (16 citations) offers foundational guidelines for robot safety standards in shared workspaces. Park has also contributed to the analysis of skin injuries from robot collisions, including a 2018 study identifying safety conditions based on skin injury analysis (7 citations) and a 2019 paper on closed cutaneous injuries (4 citations). Their research is instrumental in bridging the gap between industrial robot safety regulations and the emerging needs of collaborative environments, directly informing the design of robots that can operate safely alongside humans in manufacturing, healthcare, and service settings.

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1. 1
   Assessment of pressure pain thresholds in collisions with collaborative robots

   33 citations · 2019
2. 2
   Assessment of Pain Onset and Maximum Bearable Pain Thresholds in Physical Contact Situations

   16 citations · 2022
3. 3
   Analysis of Human-Robot Physical Interaction at Collision

   9 citations · 2021
4. 4
   Identifying Safety Conditions of Human-Robot Collision based on Skin Injury Analysis

   7 citations · 2018
5. 5
   Identification of a closed cutaneous injury after mechanical trauma caused by collision

   4 citations · 2019

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