Nai Pongpatanasuegsa
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Nai Pongpatanasuegsa is a pioneering researcher in industrial robotics safety, whose work in the early 1990s laid critical groundwork for human-robot interaction protocols. His research focuses on occupational safety, risk perception, and the ergonomics of close-proximity human-robot collaboration. Pongpatanasuegsa’s most cited study, “The effect of simulated accident on worker safety behavior around industrial robots” (1991, 19 citations), demonstrated how exposure to simulated robot accidents significantly alters worker caution and compliance with safety procedures—a foundational insight for training programs. His follow-up work, “Estimation of Safe Distance from the Robot Arm as a Guide for Limiting Slow Speed of Robot Motions” (1992, 7 citations), systematically determined minimum safe distances for monitoring and teaching tasks, using five robot motion speeds from 10 to 50 cm/s. This laboratory study established empirical benchmarks linking perceived danger to actual physical proximity, directly informing early safety standards for robot teaching modes. Though his citation counts are modest by today’s metrics, Pongpatanasuegsa’s research was among the first to quantify human behavioral responses to industrial robot hazards, making him a notable early contributor to the field of collaborative robot safety.
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