Robot safety

Process Simulate Robotics helps you to program and validate your robotic processes in a dynamic 3D environment. It includes robotics applications for spot welding, metal processing, drilling and riveting, surface treatment, and assembly. The new Robot Safety are available in 17.0. Speed reduction in 16.1.2 was only supported with RRS simulation. Now it is supports MOP. This allows you to emulate speed reduction based on a certain percentage of nominal speed, program pause, and emergency stop. These impact robot behavior as well as the time report. The following video shows a human walking by the robot, and proximity sensors representing pressure carpets (for example) trigger their location. The yellow zone slows the robot to 50% of the nominal speed, orange to 20%, and red triggers a controlled stop. Once the human leaves the red zone the robot resumes motion. A second simulation shows the same case, but without the slowing / stopping logic. You can see the impact on the cycle time.