Pilz Gmbh & Co Kg.

Thomas Pilz

Hansjürgen Horter

Dietmar Doettling

Mark Hufnagel

Karl Gönner

Uwe Röder

Ruediger Frank

Oswald Rieder

Matthias Holzäpfel

Karl GÖNNER

A shaped knitted fabric (-) is provided comprising at least one first layer (), into which a plurality of linear or flat, for example, strip-shaped, electroconductive structures () made of an electroconductive yarn and linear or flat, for example strip-shaped, non-electroconductive structures () made of a non-electroconductive yarn are knitted such that the electroconductive structures () are electrically insulated from one another, wherein each of the electroconductive structures () can individually be electrically contacted and connected to an evaluation circuit ().

Knitted fabric and use of a knitted fabric

A safety system for safeguarding cooperative operation of people, robots, and machines with respect to a technical installation includes a safety-related device. The safety-related device is configured to monitor a first hazardous area of the technical installation and bring the technical installation into a safe state in response to detection of a hazardous condition. The safety system is configured to identify an autonomously operating technical unit, register the autonomously operating technical unit in response to the autonomously operating technical unit satisfying a defined condition, and restrict monitoring of the first hazardous area by the safety-related device in response to the registration. The safety system is configured to, in response to a defined event, revoke the registration of the autonomously operating technical unit and lift the restriction on monitoring.

Safety system for safeguarding cooperative operation of people, robots and machines

A method and device for safeguarding a hazardous working area includes a camera system for generating successive 3-D images of the working area, and an evaluation unit comprising a fail-safe foreign object detector, a classifier, a person tracker and a comparator. The foreign object detector generates a first signal comprising a first item of position information, representative of the position of a foreign object in the protection zone. The classifier attempts to identify the foreign object as a person. The person tracker tracks an identified person using a series of current 3-D images and, after each new 3-D image, determines a second item of position information representing the current position of the identified person. If the position of the foreign object according to the first item of position information and the position of the identified person are different from one another, a control signal for stopping the machine is generated.

Method and device for safeguarding a hazardous working area of an automated machine

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