Configurable security monitoring for a robot assembly

US9746843B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• KUKA Roboter GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Uwe Bonin · Augsburg, DE
• Jonas Rumping · Munich, DE
• Marc-Walter Ueberle · Friedberg, DE
• Christian Hartmann · Nemsdorf, DE
• Denis Pesotski · Friedberg, DE
• Botond Gorog · Gräfelfing, DE
• Giulio Milighetti · Friedberg, DE
• Robert Bertossi · Gersthofen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 9, 2014
• Grant date: Aug 29, 2017
• Expiry date: Jan 9, 2034

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B25J9/1676
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A method of safety monitoring for a robot assembly with at least one robot that is configured with a linking function arrangement with at least one first linking function including a fixed and predetermined number of monitoring functions of a monitoring function arrangement. The monitoring functions are logically linked to one another such that the first linking function has a reaction state whenever all of the monitoring functions indicate the violated and/or error state. The first linking function does not have a reaction state whenever any monitoring function from the plurality of monitoring functions does not indicate the violated and/or error state. The reaction state is executed by the controller when all of the monitoring functions are in the violated and/or error state.