Franka Emika Panda - Status Indicators Explained

Franka Emika GmbH ©October 2018
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• Aer the Control has been switched on, or supplied with energy, Panda
boots up. In this process, the safety locking system is acvated, move-
ments are thus locked mechanically. The display lights on the base and
the pilot ash yellow.
• As soon as Panda has booted up, the display lights are lit yellow connuously.
• At this point, the safety locking system can be opened with the buon
“unlock joints” in the sidebar of Desk. The display lights now are lit white
connuously. Desks’s sidebar shows now “joints unlocked”. Panda is now
in the “monitored stop” state.
• By simultaneous pressing of the enabling buon and the guiding buon
at the Arm’s grip, the Arm allows itself to record (teach) posions, for
example by guiding the Arm manually (teaching). During any Teaching,
Panda is lit white connuously.
• Should the buons be released, then Panda is once again in “monitored
stop” condion and is lit white connuously.
• From here, the “step back & check” status can be entered by taking the
external enabling device and possibly also the emergency-stop device
out of the Safety Area. If the external enabling device is half-pressed
now, Panda is acvated and is lit blue. Now, the Play buon in Desk can
be pressed, for example, and an automated program started. As a rule,
during this Panda is lit green.
• In case of error, Panda turns red.
There are status lights on both sides of the base which take on the correspond-
ing color, similar to a trac light. These status lights will only ash during boot-
up, during other processes the lights will glow connuously in the corresponding
color of the status Panda is in. In addion, there is a circular status light in the
middle of the Pilot’s Disc. Its color also indicates Panda’s status. When a user is
interacng with the Arm the middle status light on the Pilot is switched o to
increase visibility and usability. In certain situaons, in parcular when Panda
requires aenon or a user input, the Pilot will ash in the corresponding color.
Overview of the status indicators
blue


green


white

yellow
Locked
pink
red

Error


moment

Panda is locked mechanically or cannot be used

an error has occurred