Veo Robotics, Inc.

Adtran Gmbh

Patrick Joseph Foy

Clara Vu

Scott A Denenberg

Alberto Moel

Patrick Sobalvarro

Ilya A Kriveshko

Lev Persits

Elliot Simon

Justin Bronder

Thomas F Guevin

Duane Charles Compton

Sohil Babubhai Thakkar

Control systems for industrial machinery (e.g., robots) or other devices such as medical devices utilize a safety processor (SP) designed for integration into safety applications and computational components that are not necessarily safety-rated. The SP monitors performance of the non-safety computational components, including latency checks and verification of identical outputs. One or more sensors send data to the non-safety computational components for sophisticated processing and analysis that the SP cannot not perform, but the results of this processing are sent to the SP, which then generates safety-rated signals to the machinery or device being controlled by the SP. As a result, the system may qualify for a safety rating despite the ability to perform complex operations beyond the scope of safety-rated components.

System architecture for safety applications

A method and apparatus for network access control includes an apparatus for granting a computing device access to a network, the apparatus having a plurality of substantially similar access devices, wherein each access device comprises a status-determination module to determine an access status based at least in part on whether the computing device is compliant with an access policy, an access-grant module configured for receiving an access status corresponding to the computing device from one or more of the access devices, and granting the computing device access to the network according to at least one of the access status determined by the status-determination module or the received access status.

Method and apparatus for network access control

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