Functional Safety Solution

Safety Robot System with Smart Interact

The process of manufacturing has become more automated than ever. With robots highly involved in production and in close contact with human counterparts, worker safety becomes a critical topic. Human robot collaborative applications need to reach safety performance up to SIL 2 according to IEC 61508 or Cat.3 PL=d according to ISO 13849-1. NexCOBOT’s PC-based robot control platform-SCB100, coupled with Synapticon’s smart servo drive and safe motion module form the next generation modularized collaborative application robot control ROBASafe solution, building the world’s first x86 SIL 2/SIL 3 robot control solution. Enhanced for IoT embedded and industrial applications, the SCB100 adopts the Intel Atom x6427FE processor and Intel Safety Island (Intel SI) with integrated functional safety capability, making it the best processor to develop a control system for robots and machines.

NexCOBOT offers the ROBASafe SIL 2 / Cat. 3 robot control solution which shortens the overall development life cycle for customers and provides faster time-to-market solution. ROBASafe also delivers the performance needed to support both computing and safety-related workloads on the same board, which can help reduce hardware components in any given deployment. The SCB100 offers comprehensive safety interfaces, real-time operating system and APIs to detect hardware platform failures.

The ROBASafe solution also can be integrated with a dynamic 3D working area monitoring system - Dynasafe, developed by Fraunhofer IWU, the leading institute for resource-efficient production in Europe. Dynasafe is able to form safe areas through multi-angle streaming video, dynamically monitoring collaborative robot’s safety and significantly reduce the difficulty for robot manufacturers to develop functional safety function in collaborative application.