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Re: 1189 - Human-Bot Arm Control

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Originally Posted by jmcr8on View Post
I will give a couple of answers:

Autonomous: The vest/arm hang on the OI board. At the end of autonomous the operator walks up, puts the vest over hear head (and safety glasses) and slides her arm in to the supports...the velcros the straps. In the meantime the driver starts to move the bot.

Sneezing or something: A concern we had was getting distracted and turning to talk to someone, etc. Just like driving a car, and sneezing, care must be taken. The arm disable button could be pressed on the onset of the sneeze...if the operator had their wits about them. If not...then the robot arm would move the same way the human arm did durign the sneeze....and then would move to the position the human arm was in 'after' the sneeze.

In our pit area and the practice area we set up orange cones around our work cell/area and warned people to not enter the area. We also called 'clear' when the arm was enabled...and completely cleared the area when the turret was to be used.
That is really cool. Way to go on safety as well.
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