Teamwork: speed in a protected space + HRC in the shared workspace
In the “Speed & Sensitivity” application, the LBR iiwa robot is partially installed in a protected space – quite deliberately, in order to demonstrate a work situation combining an enclosed zone with an adjacent open zone of human-robot collaboration (HRC). In the protected zone, the robot moves at high speed with a component in order to perform its task. High speeds always mean a risk of potential injury, however, which is why this area has been secured by means of a light curtain. When the robot switches to safe HRC mode, it can move through the light curtain into the shared human-robot workspace. Here it uses its sensitive touch to assemble part of an automatic transmission and moves more slowly.