- September 02, 2024
- NEXCOM International Co., Ltd.
- Sponsored
NexCOBOT unveils the world’s first FuSa Certified controller in IMTS 2024, Booth 236051 and Embedded World North America 2024, Booth 2505.
Ensuring FuSa for critical systems
The TUV certified SCB 100 control board safeguards robot actions with Intel® Safety Island (Intel® SI), which is integrated into the Intel processor. Safety Island supports functional safety, orchestrates Intel-on-chip diagnostics, reports errors, and monitors customer-safety applications. When a robot is in operation, Safety Island constantly checks its calculations for direction, speed, force, and other factors in real time to make sure it operates correctly.
If a safety error occurs, the system brings the robot to an immediate halt and sends feedback about the problem to the operator’s systems integrator.
The processors have the performance power to run multiple AI and computer vision workloads—combining non-safety motion control with safety applications. This allows developers to build in more functionality while saving space and money. The result is a lighter, more compact robot that is easier for customers to install and deploy in tight spaces, whether it’s cobots or AMRs (mobile robots).
Faster robot development
Critical systems like robots that work in cooperation with humans must include robust functional safety (FuSa) controls. FuSa is an international standard methodology for automatically detecting and mitigating electronic system malfunctions in critical systems—in this case, malfunctions that could harm people. For example, if a robot’s FuSa system indicates that it is veering off-course or traveling too fast, it will send a signal to stop all moving parts.
To gain approval for their cobots, developers must build in FuSa controls for every action they perform that could affect people. Their traveling velocity, the amount of force they use to grasp an object from a human hand, the torque they exert in rotation—these and many other variables must meet exacting ISO standards, and sometimes country-specific ones as well. Both hardware and software related to functional safety must obtain certification.
For the hardware, each of the thousands of electronic components in a robot’s embedded computer must obtain certification from a qualified institute. If a developer builds robots from scratch, the process can take several years.
The NexCOBOT SCB 100 safety control board contains pre-certified Intel Atom® x6000 series processors, saving time for both NexCOBOT and its developer customers.
Along with its silicon and software, Intel provides technical documentation such as safety manuals, safety analysis, and user guides, which also makes the certification process faster and simpler.
Product specifications:
- Certified to IEC 61508 and ISO 13849-1
- Supports EtherCAT Slave Communication
- Support 12-ch in/4-ch out safety I/O
- Supports HDMI Display
- Supports Intel® Elkhart Lake Processor
- Supports 2x DDR4 SO-DIMM, Up to 32GB
- Supports 4 x Intel GbE LAX, 6 x USB 2.0/3.0, 2 x COM, 1 x mPCIe
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