Controlled Impedance Design Guide
for your collaborative robot application
Cobots, or collaborative robots, are robots specifically designed for direct interaction with a human within a shared space defined as collaborative workspace. The application of cobots differs from the traditional robots application in which robots were isolated from human contact. Cobots, in a short span of time, have witnessed rapid innovation, resulting in four major types of collaborative robots:
Such challenging tasks require high-functioning printed circuit boards that cannot fail your electronics. As a manufacturer of high-quality PCBs, we are all about precision and know exactly how to best assist you and your project.
High-speed designs are more commonplace and the impact on the performance is becoming greater and greater. As a PCB designer, you need to know what nets require controlled impedance, how to avoid common mistakes when designing, what to specify in the fabrication drawing, how to design controlled impedance traces, how to get a stack-up from your manufacturer, as well as make sure they can meet your requirements.
This design guide empowers designers: the purpose is to get you on the advanced side of controlled impedance.
- Safety Monitored Stop – Intended for applications that requires minimal interaction between the robot and human workers. They have a series of sensors that stop the robot operation when a human enters the workplace.
- Speed and Separation – These types of cobots use advanced vision systems which help in slowing down the operation when a human worker approaches the workspace and stops the operation altogether when a worker is too close to the robot.
- Power and Force Limiting – These types of cobots are built with rounded corners and a series of smart collision sensors to quickly detect contact with a human worker and stop operation. These cobots also feature force limitations which ensures that any collision does not result in injury.
- Hand Guiding – These cobots are equipped with a hand-guided device which is operated by a human operator controlling the motion of the robot during automatic mode.
Such challenging tasks require high-functioning printed circuit boards that cannot fail your electronics. As a manufacturer of high-quality PCBs, we are all about precision and know exactly how to best assist you and your project.
Get your collaborative robot PCB’s impedance right the first time.
High-speed designs are more commonplace and the impact on the performance is becoming greater and greater. As a PCB designer, you need to know what nets require controlled impedance, how to avoid common mistakes when designing, what to specify in the fabrication drawing, how to design controlled impedance traces, how to get a stack-up from your manufacturer, as well as make sure they can meet your requirements.
This design guide empowers designers: the purpose is to get you on the advanced side of controlled impedance.