Safety-rated multi-cell workspace mapping and monitoring
US11613017B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Jul 14, 2021 |
| Grant date | Mar 28, 2023 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Aug 20, 2041 |
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- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10S901/49
- WIPO fieldMeasurement
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
Safety systems in distributed factory workcells intercommunicate or communicate with a central controller so that when a person, robot or vehicle passes from one workcell or space into another on the same factory floor, the new workcell or space need not repeat the tasks of analysis and classification and can instead immediately integrate the new entrant into the existing workcell or space-monitoring schema. The workcell or space can also communicate attributes such as occlusions, unsafe areas, movement speed, and object trajectories, enabling rapid reaction by the monitoring system of the new workcell or space.
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