Patent ID: 9737992
Date: 2017-08-22
CPC Classifications: B25J,G05B,Y10S

Claim:
1. An automated installation in which at least one robot is used in at least one mode of operation in at least one work zone, said installation comprising: a closed space equipped with at least one door offering access to at least one operator intervention station, said at least one operator intervention station being situated in said work zone of said robot, detection means for detecting the presence of an element in said closed space at said operator intervention station, the detection means being arranged in said closed space to delimit at least two zones and detect incursion of an operator therein, and also being associated with control means for control of said at least one mode of operation of the robot, each zone delimited by the detection means being associated with one mode of operation of the robot, wherein the detection means are positioned at a predetermined height from a floor of said closed space, said height being greater than the height of an empty pallet, such that said detection means does not transmit a detection signal when the operator introduces an empty pallet in the operator intervention station, as the pallet passes below a detection level of the detection means; and wherein at least one of the two zones delimited by the detection means extends horizontally into the work zone of the robot into a space where the robot enters for depositing items onto the pallet.