SafeMove2 is ABB’s second-generation safety controller product for robots, aimed at ensuring personnel and equipment safety, promoting human/robot collaboration, and providing users with lean, flexible, and more cost-effective robot solutions. Its powerful configuration tools greatly reduce debugging time and provide flexible safety features such as rated speed and position monitoring, enabling dangerous applications such as X-ray inspection and laser cutting.

For the safety range of Safemove2, nodes can be manually added based on the layout in RobotStudio, and specific positions can be adjusted manually by dragging and dropping.

Usually, the safety range should be based on the actual operating trajectory of the robot, set as small as possible, that is, the safety range only needs to include the robot’s trajectory working range (including end tools, upper arms, etc.).

Safemove2 provides the function of automatically generating a safe range based on the robot’s trajectory. The effect is as follows.

Specific usage method:
1. Create robot trajectories in robotstudio.
2. Enter the safemove2 settings interface and click on step 1 in the following image: Record Simulation
3. Click on the simulation trajectory to play (step 2)
After the simulation is completed, the safety zone and safety range icons become operable.
5. Click on “Safe Zone” and select the tool position monitoring. If the tool and elbow joint are selected (provided that the body geometry wrapping has been set), the minimum area based on the tool wrapping and body wrapping motion range will be generated.

If you choose tool only, only the range based on the tool package will be generated.

It can also automatically generate maximum speed monitoring and configuration of each axis range (safety range) for TCP and 3-axis monitoring points.