Small solution that packs a large punch for AGV safety

摘要

Seb Strutt explains how the safety laser scanner has created unprecedented new opportunities to protect personnel at affordable costs and how, in particular, its versatility has offered increased collision protection from driverless guided vehicles. There are few developments in machinery safety that can claim such a transforming impact on productivity and machinery development as the safety laser scanner. Since its introduction in the mid 1990s, it has proved to be a true enabling technology in production environments, packing a large punch in ever smaller designs. Recent technological advances, that have made the safety laser scanner even more compact, have delivered major advances in the use of Automated Guided Vehicles (AGV). They have achieved safe non-contact detection of personnel in the path of a moving vehicles travelling along complex paths and production layouts.