公开(公告)号：US20200150637A1

公开(公告)日：2020-05-14

申请号：US16189116

申请日：2018-11-13

Applicant: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Chris John Yates ,  Maciej Stankiewicz ,  Jonathan Alexander ,  Chris Softley

IPC: G05B19/418 ,  G05B19/048

Abstract: An industrial safety zone configuration system leverages a digital twin of an industrial automation system to assist in configuring safety sensors for accurate monitoring of a desired detection zone. The system renders a graphical representation of the automation system based on the digital twin and allows a user to define a desired detection zone to be monitored as a three-dimensional volume within the virtual industrial environment. Users can define the locations and orientations of respective safety sensors as sensor objects that can be added to the graphical representation. Each sensor object has a set of object attributes representing configuration settings available on the corresponding physical sensor. The system can identify sensor configuration settings that will yield an estimated detection zone that closely conforms to the defined detection zone, and generate sensor configuration data based on these settings that can be used to configure the physical safety sensors.

公开(公告)号：US20230185292A1

公开(公告)日：2023-06-15

申请号：US17937848

申请日：2022-10-04

Applicant: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Chris John Yates ,  Maciej Stankiewicz ,  Jonathan Alexander ,  Chris Softley

IPC: G05B19/418 ,  G05B19/048

CPC classification number: G05B19/41885 ,  G05B19/048 ,  G05B19/4184

Abstract: An industrial safety zone configuration system leverages a digital twin of an industrial automation system to assist in configuring safety sensors for accurate monitoring of a desired detection zone. The system renders a graphical representation of the automation system based on the digital twin and allows a user to define a desired detection zone to be monitored as a three-dimensional volume within the virtual industrial environment. Users can define the locations and orientations of respective safety sensors as sensor objects that can be added to the graphical representation. Each sensor object has a set of object attributes representing configuration settings available on the corresponding physical sensor. The system can identify sensor configuration settings that will yield an estimated detection zone that closely conforms to the defined detection zone, and generate sensor configuration data based on these settings that can be used to configure the physical safety sensors.

公开(公告)号：US11493908B2

公开(公告)日：2022-11-08

申请号：US16189116

申请日：2018-11-13

Applicant: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Chris John Yates ,  Maciej Stankiewicz ,  Jonathan Alexander ,  Chris Softley

IPC: G05B19/41 ,  G05B19/418 ,  G05B19/048

Abstract: An industrial safety zone configuration system leverages a digital twin of an industrial automation system to assist in configuring safety sensors for accurate monitoring of a desired detection zone. The system renders a graphical representation of the automation system based on the digital twin and allows a user to define a desired detection zone to be monitored as a three-dimensional volume within the virtual industrial environment. Users can define the locations and orientations of respective safety sensors as sensor objects that can be added to the graphical representation. Each sensor object has a set of object attributes representing configuration settings available on the corresponding physical sensor. The system can identify sensor configuration settings that will yield an estimated detection zone that closely conforms to the defined detection zone, and generate sensor configuration data based on these settings that can be used to configure the physical safety sensors.