AI Accelerator Safety

AI Accelerator

The AI Accelerator allows AI to work in conjunction with vision and sensor feedback to make logical decisions about the robot arm's behavior.

 

There can be additional risks associated with AI making decisions regarding robot arm behavior with potential for unintended consequences, safety hazards, and system failures.

  • Be aware of the risk of sudden and unexpected motions due to the AI decisions.

  • Be aware of the risk of unpredictable motion patterns.

  • Restrict the amount of personnel traffic within reach and around the robot application when the application is running an AI experiment or demo.
 

Prolonged robot inactivity can be perceived as a stop, resulting in equipment damage or personnel injury due to unexpected movement, or a sudden start.

  • The person developing an application shall be responsible for installing and programming AI Accelerator, to lessen unexpected movement situations.

  • Check the program state to determine if the robot is completely stopped or temporarily inactive (waiting). If the program is running but the robot is not moving, the robot can move again unexpectedly.
 

Failure to turn off, secure and lock out all sources of hazardous energy to the robot application when servicing, or repairing, any part of the AI Accelerator set-up can result in death or serious injury due to unexpected movement.

  • Turn off, secure and lock out sources of hazardous energy before conducting all service and repair procedures.