Common errors when setting up a safety laser scanner

2020-08-10 18:57:45

1. If you know that you will use a safe laser scanner, then consider blind spots, coverage, and hazardous locations from the beginning. For example, to cover the AGV completely, the most suitable location is to integrate two adjacent scanners on each corner of the vehicle.

2. Configured multiple incorrect sampling values

Increasing multiple sampling can increase the availability of the machine, but it will also have a negative impact on the application. Increasing the number of samples basically adds an OFF-Delay to the system, which means that due to the increase in the total response time, your protection area may need to be larger.In addition, in vertical applications, if multiple sampling is set too high, then a person may pass through the protected area without being detected.

3. Wrong selection of safety laser scanner

It may result in the need for more and more multiple samples, and may lack angular resolution. The increase in response time and the lack of angle may mean that a larger protective area is required.

4. Incorrect resolution selection

Reducing the resolution may also reduce the maximum protection range of the safety laser scanner, so inspection is very important.

5. Not considering the environment

If there is often thick dust, thick steam and excessive wood chips in front of the field of view, the scanner may not be able to maintain 100% machine availability. Even if the scanner will continue to be safe and respond to this situation, the environmental conditions may not be accepted by users.

6. Non-secure switching of field sets

The field set in the safety laser scanner can be composed of many different field types. The scanner can store many different fields.Incorrect selection of field set may mean that the protection field of AGV is small and fast, so the parking time is long, then causes danger.