Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Hiroki Baba

Tetsuya Ozawa

Yoshiharu Sakai

Yoshito Ohtake

Kazuyoshi Fukuzawa

Immediately before a robotstarts to move at a high speed, a monitoring areais expanded in a returning direction Y, and absence of an obstacle in the monitoring areais confirmed. During the high speed movement of the robot, the monitoring areais expanded forward, so that a safety of an operator is secured, an effective use of a working station area can be made, and an improvement of productivity can be achieved.

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Tochigi, Japan

Hiroki Baba