METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ROBOTIC DEVICE, CONTROL DEVICE, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND MEDIUM

According to various embodiments, a method for controlling a robotic device, a control device, a computer program with instructions and a computer readable medium are described, the method comprising: generating control software for the robotic device; executing a field test by means of control software; ascertaining a scene in which an event having at least one predefined critical state (i.e., a predefined value of a critical state metric) occurs during the field test, and ascertaining, for each ascertained scene, an ascertained frequency of occurrence of the scene having the event having at least the predefined critical state; performing a simulation for each ascertained scene; ascertaining a collision rate for each ascertained scene by the simulation; combining the ascertained collision rates into an average (in other words, global) collision risk over all the ascertained scenarios, taking into account the ascertained frequencies; if the average collision risk meets a specified safety criterion, the robot