1) Also to mention, a US standard for AGV's and related equipment in the industrial area:
ANSI B56.5 Safety Standard for Guided Industrial Vehicles and Automated Functions of Manned Industrial Vehicles This standard is available (free?) from its publisher, the Industrial Truck Standards Development Foundation http://www.itsdf.org/ FYI, they encourage interested parties to get involved in the development process. 2) I think some here could have slightly misread Doug's email(?). As Doug pointed out, ISO 10218-1 (also adopted as EN ISO 10218-1 and ANSI-RIA-ISO 10218-1) has similar scope to clause 4 of ANSI RIA R15.06. In other words, it addresses the robot manipulator (and its controller) only, it is directed at the robot manufacturer. The integration of the robot (application, i.e. "robot systems") will be addressed by ISO 10218-2, when published, but is currently addressed in USA by the rest of ANSI RIA R15.06, and in EU by the rest of EN 775. (But the EU commission messed up on that in the OJ... another story...). RIA has issued RIA TR15.206-2008 "Guidelines for implementing ANSI-RIA-ISO 10218-1-2007" Anyway, I wanted to emphasize that the scope of draft ISO 10218-2 (and draft ANSI-RIA-ISO 10218-2) is "industrial robot systems", i.e. all aspects of the integration of industrial robots. The draft does address, unlike its predecessors, collaborative robot applications, but it also includes traditional robot cells, with fixed and interlocked guarding, etc. RIA does intend to eventually adopt ISO 10218-2 (as ANSI-RIA-ISO 10218-2) but with some national changes. 3) ISO TC 184 SC 2 (which is also responsible for ISO 10218) has a working group that is working on "Robots and robotic devices - Safety requirements - Non-medical personal care robot " (provisional title) which includes many service robot applications. If you want to track its progress over the coming year, http://www.iso.org/iso/search/extendedsearchstandards.htm?from_js=true&type=adv&displayResult=true&formKeyword=&formISO_number=&formPart_number=&formDocument_type=ALL&formSupp_type=&formICS=&formStage_code=&repost=1&formDate_stage=0&formOther_date=&formCommittee=%22TC+184%22&formSub_committee=2&formSubmit=Search&development=on or http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_tc_browse.htm?commid=54138&development=on If this link doesn't work, go to ISO.org and do an advanced search for TC 184, subcommittee 2, "Standards under development". (This does NOT give access to the draft. If you wanted to get involved in the standards development process, you would need to contact the secretariat, http://www.iso.org/iso/technical_committee_contact.html?commid=54138 ) Regards, Glyn Garside - This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to <[email protected]> All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc Graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. can be posted to that URL. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas <[email protected]> Mike Cantwell <[email protected]> For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher <[email protected]> David Heald <[email protected]>
