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Qualification of Personnel
It is the end-user’s responsibility to ensure that all personnel who will work with or around mobile robots
have attended an appropriate OMRON training course and have a working knowledge of the system. The
user must provide the necessary additional training for all personnel who will be working with the system.
This additional training should contain topics related to application-specific hardware that has been added
to the LD Platform which will not have been covered by OMRON training,
As noted in this and the robot user guides, certain procedures should be performed only by skilled or
instructed persons. For a description of the level of qualification, we use the standard terms:
• Skilled persons have technical knowledge or sufficient experience to enable them to avoid the
dangers, electrical and/or mechanical
• Instructed persons are adequately advised or supervised by skilled persons to enable them to avoid
the dangers, electrical and/or mechanical
All personnel must observe industry-prescribed safety practices during the installation, operation, and
testing of all electrically-powered equipment.
WARNING: Before working with the robot, every entrusted person must confirm that they:
• Have the necessary qualifications
• Have received the guides (both this user’s guide, and the Mobile Robot LD Safety
Guide)
• Have read the guides
• Understand the guides
• Will work in the manner specified by the guides
Payload Movement and Transfer
Monitoring and confirmation of the status of robot payload movement and transfer to or from facility
equipment is the end-user’s responsibility.
Payload transfer problems must trigger a robot E-Stop, preventing the robot from moving until an Operator
has resolved the problem and confirmed that the system is safe to use. This handling of payload transfer
problems is the end-user’s responsibility.
Providing safe interface between the robot and facility equipment (e.g. conveyor belts) is the user’s
responsibility and should also be determined as the result of the Risk Assessment performed for the
application.
Configurable Warning Buzzer
The LD platforms have a configurable warning buzzer. It is the user’s responsibility to configure this buzzer
as appropriate for the facility in which the robot will be operating. The buzzer will sound whenever the
robot is moving backwards or is turning. Other situations are configurable.
The buzzer is configured with MobilePlanner, using the following parameters:
NOTE: These parameters are only available with the Mobile Robot Software Suite
5.0 and later.
• DriveWarningEnable
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