Method of Handling Safety of Industrial Robot, Control System and Robot System
AssigneeABB Schweiz AG
InventorsJonas Brönmark, Björn Löfvendahl, Stefan Romberg, Simon Gräsberg
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Abstract
A method of handling safety of an industrial robot of a robot system, the method including providing at least one virtual safety border defined in relation to the industrial robot, where each virtual safety border is associated with a condition to be fulfilled by the industrial robot; for each virtual safety border, performing an indication operation by the robot system, where the indication operation indicates a position of the virtual safety border in a physical workspace of the industrial robot; and for each indication operation, receiving a verification input from a user. A control system and a robot system are also provided.
Claims21
A method of handling safety of an industrial robot of a robot system, the method comprising:
- providing at least one virtual safety border defined in relation to the industrial robot, where each virtual safety border is associated with a condition to be fulfilled by the industrial robot;
- for each virtual safety border, performing an indication operation by the robot system, where the indication operation indicates a position of the virtual safety border in a physical workspace of the industrial robot;
- and
- for each indication operation, receiving a verification input from a user.
A control system for handling safety of an industrial robot of a robot system, the control system comprising at least one data processing device and at least one memory having at least one computer program stored thereon, the at least one computer program including a program code which, when executed by the at least one data processing device, causes the at least one data processing device to perform the steps of:
- providing at least one virtual safety border defined in relation to the industrial robot, where each virtual safety border is associated with a condition to be fulfilled by the industrial robot;
- for each virtual safety border, commanding performance of an indication operation by the robot system, where the indication operation indicates a position of the virtual safety border in a physical workspace of the industrial robot;
- and
- for each indication operation, receiving a verification input from a user.
A robot system comprising an industrial robot and a control system for handling safety of the industrial robot, the control system including at least one data processing device and at least one memory having at least one computer program stored thereon, the at least one computer program including a program code which, when executed by the at least one data processing device, causes the at least one data processing device to perform the steps of:
- providing at least one virtual safety border defined in relation to the industrial robot, where each virtual safety border is associated with a condition to be fulfilled by the industrial robot;
- for each virtual safety border, commanding performance of an indication operation by the robot system, where the indication operation indicates a position of the virtual safety border in a physical workspace of the industrial robot;
- and
- for each indication operation, receiving a verification input from a user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.