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What Should You Do When Robot Collide With?

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     When programming a robot in manual mode or trying it into automatic mode in production, robot could collide with other robots, machine parts or anything else into the cell. In that case, you may not keep going robot because of the collision effect onto the robot axes. It is hard to continue with just resetting the error and moving robot directly. Robot shock sensors/algorithms/torque controls sense the collision and stops immediately for preventing robot and other stuffs from huge damage.  Figure 1: Illustration of Collision             Quick Information: I create a Reddit topic to understand " How industrial robots understand collision and stop immediately?  " Figure 2: Reddit Most Voted Answers       In this post, I would like to mention about how to change the level of the detection of each axes and/or making collision detection valid or invalid for maintaining the robot moveable after robot collision. I prepared some detailed information especially for two robots w