Chapter 2: Safety
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damage situation.
This identifies a hazardous ESD
situation.
Falling Hazards
WARNING: PERSONALINJURYORPROPERTYDAMAGERISK
The AMR can cause serious injury to personnel or damage to itself or other
equipment if it drives off of a ledge, such as a loading dock, or down stairs.
Physical Barriers
Use physical barriers together with logical barriers (map restrictions) to prevent the AMR from
approaching any fall hazard that is within its operating area. Such hazards include:
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The edge of a loading dock or ramp.
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Entrance to downward stairs.
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Any other vertical drop that exceeds the AMR's maximum step height.
Required characteristics of physical barriers are:
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Strength—The barrier must be attached to a solid wall or floor and should be strong
enough to stop a fully-laden AMR traveling at maximum speed.
l Continuity—The barrier must extend around the hazard completely.
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Visibility—Mark all physical barriers to make sure that the AMR's safety and nav-
igation laser can detect them easily. Barriers must extend above and below the laser's
sensing plane, particularly if the floor is not flat.
Logical Barriers
In addition to physical barriers, create forbidden areas or lines on the workspace map to pre-
vent AMRs from closely approaching a fall hazard. These restrictions must be continuous so
that the AMR cannot plan a path around the logical barrier.
You can also use the configuration parameters FrontPaddingAtSlowSpeed and FrontPad-
dingAtFastSpeed to increase the AMR's safety clearances. This causes the AMR to decelerate
as it approaches a hazard. See Fleet Operations Workspace Core User's Guide.
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