SAFETY SYSTEM FOR INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS
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Abstract
A system to secure people'"'"'s safety in places such as a factory wherein people and industrial robot collaborate with each other in a state that a physical fence surrounding the preferred industrial robot'"'"'s working region is excluded. The system is capable of acquiring respective distances between robot and a plurality of people. Furthermore, a critical distance of each person is set on the basis of at least one of personal information that each person individually has and environment information to be set depending on the robot'"'"'s setting environment. A mounted-type monitor is respectively mounted on the plurality of people and is capable of displaying information within a view of each person, and a control unit is capable of controlling display content thereon. According to the display control, when a distance between robot and each person becomes less than a critical distance, the distance state is displayed on the mounted-type monitor.
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7. A robot safety system, comprising:
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a distance acquisition unit to acquire respective distances between an industrial robot and a plurality of people; a critical distance setting unit to set a critical distance of the each person on the basis of at least one of personal information that the each person individually has and environment information to be set depending on a setting environment of the robot; a mounted-type monitor to be respectively mounted on the plurality of people and to be capable of displaying information within a view of the each person; and a control unit to control display content with respect to the mounted-type monitor, wherein the control unit is configured to perform a process of showing that a distance between the robot and the each person becomes less than the critical distance on the mounted-type monitor that the each person is mounting, when the distance between the robot and the each person becomes less than the critical distance. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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