The brand new Flexi Cell Security Controller from Sick Sensor Intelligence has been designed to make sure security in dynamic cell robots. The answer is ideally suited to each indoor and out of doors off-highway autonomous autos (AMRs, AGVs, IMRs) and equipment, together with indoor service robots, driverless vehicles, service robots and transport autos. Key purposes vary from off-road, logistics and agricultural makes use of to materials dealing with, mining, logistics, municipal equipment, ports, airports and building.
The corporate says its Flexi Cell delivers wonderful surroundings notion and protected movement monitoring for AGVs/AMRs in indoor and out of doors settings to optimise the productiveness and security of automated processes even in confined areas.
Flexi Cell’s cabinet-free clever set up idea and autonomous automobile capabilities allows space-saving integration into driverless vehicles for as much as two axes. It’s doable to soundly join sensors in collection with out extra wiring through rectangular multi-pin connectors on wire harnesses, supporting cost-efficient collection manufacturing of cell machines, and making including and eradicating particular person security units easy.
Flexi Cell is programmable utilizing a complete of 512 perform blocks, together with TUV-certified devoted differential drive perform blocks to speed up the event of standard-compliant AGVs and AMRs. Protected movement options are doable as much as PLe/SIL 3, together with virtually all protected movement perform blocks from the Sick Flexisoft controller, assembly required security efficiency ranges for dynamic cell platforms. Protected kinematics enhance productiveness even in confined environments and Flexi Cell facilitates omnidirectional drive ideas.
Complete, process-oriented intuitive configuration of Flexi Cell units might be achieved utilizing Sick’s free-to-use, drag-and-drop security designer software program. Security Designer makes it simple to configure, doc and consider full security purposes throughout a variety of Sick security elements with only one software. Offering important security information, reviews and steady diagnostics, Sick Security Designer reduces unplanned downtime and offers authorized certainty within the type of dependable, detailed, standard-compliant security documentation. It’s even doable to just about create purposes earlier than buying {hardware} for gratis.
The Flexi Cell Security Controller might be mounted on cell autos in powerful environments and not using a management cupboard. Its sturdy shock and vibration-resistant aluminium housing offers safety in opposition to environmental influences (IP66, IP67 & IP69K) guaranteeing wonderful capabilities in opposition to filth and ingress. The gadget has excessive passive cooling capability and has been rigorously examined to withstand excessive stress, in addition to floor temperatures starting from -40C – +80 C. Flexi Cell additionally has a formidable 4 m/s cycle time, is rated as much as PLe/SIL3, options Modbus TCP fieldbus for diagnostics and may accommodate as much as three Flexi Loop chains.
Its modular design means Flexi Cell might be tailor-made to fulfill the wants of various autonomous cell purposes, with a wide range of I/O growth modules in addition to Ethernet, Modbus TCP, SLMP, CAN and CANopen interfaces accessible.
“We’re excited to launch the Sick Flexi Cell vary, bringing collectively all the advantages of Sick’s Flexi Smooth know-how and our many years of expertise in autonomous cell purposes. Sturdy, rugged and simply configured utilizing devoted perform blocks and the distinctive free Sick Security Designer software, Flexi Cell is able to withstanding the rigorous calls for of AMR and AGV purposes while assembly all of the related security requirements with out the necessity for a management cupboard, offering simple and quick design and validation of cell platforms,” says Dr Martin Kidman, Sick security product supervisor.
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