System and method for adjusting fail-safe monitoring in an industrial automation plant
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsMartin Arzich, Rene Graf
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Abstract
A safety system of a mobile component of an industrial automation plant and method for adjusting failsafe monitoring in the industrial automation plant, wherein a sensor of a mobile component of the industrial automation plant is used to determine a position and orientation of the mobile component relative to a further component of the industrial automation plant in a failsafe manner, a communicative and failsafe coupling is set up between the mobile component and the further component, and successful coupling results in a monitoring region of the mobile component are adjusted, where a monitoring region of the further component is also possibly adjusted.
Claims17
A method for adjusting failsafe monitoring in an industrial automation plant, the method comprising:
- determining, by a first sensor of a mobile component of the industrial automation plant, a pose of the mobile component relative to a further component of the industrial automation plant in a failsafe manner, said first sensor monitoring a first monitoring region of the mobile component;
- monitoring, by a second sensor, a second monitoring region of the further component;
- setting up a communicative and failsafe coupling between the mobile component and the further component;
- adjusting, upon successfully setting up the communicative and failsafe coupling, the first monitoring region of the mobile component;
- and
- adjusting, upon successfully setting up the communicative and failsafe coupling, the second monitoring region of the further component.
A safety system comprising:
- a safety unit including an interface to a sensor for determining a pose of a mobile component relative to a further component in a failsafe manner;
- a coupling interface for setting up a communicative and failsafe coupling between the mobile component and the further component;
- a monitoring unit for adjusting a first monitoring region of the mobile component in an event of successful coupling and the second monitoring region of the further component, the safety system further comprising at least one sensor;
- and
- a failsafe controller configured to:
- determine, via the at least one sensor, a pose of the mobile component relative to the further component of the industrial automation plant in a failsafe manner, said first sensor monitoring the first monitoring region of the mobile component;
- monitor, via a second sensor a second monitoring region of the further component;
- set up a communicative and failsafe coupling between the mobile component and the further component;
- adjust, upon successfully setting up the communicative and failsafe coupling, the first monitoring region of the mobile component;
- and
- adjust, upon successfully setting up the communicative and failsafe coupling, the second monitoring region of the further component.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.