Mobile robots and vehicles
Anything that drives itself across the floor: guided vehicles, autonomous mobile robots, driverless forklifts and tuggers. The route is the workspace, so every person on the floor is inside it.
Classes in this family
7; 5 adaptive by default, 7 whose wrong action reaches a person- Automated guided vehicle line SL-T 2 fixed
Carries loads along fixed guide paths on the floor, stopping when its scanner sees an obstacle, under a fleet manager that assigns the jobs. - Automated tugger and tow train line SL-T 2 fixed
Tows a train of carts along a route between stores and the line, stopping for obstacles. - Autonomous cleaning robot business SL-T 1 adaptive
Drives a floor scrubber or sweeper around a mapped floor, usually outside production hours, re-planning around obstacles. - Autonomous forklift line SL-T 2 adaptive
Lifts and moves pallets without a driver, at fork height and truck mass, along planned or guided routes through the warehouse. - Autonomous mobile robot line SL-T 2 adaptive
Plans its own route across a mapped floor to carry loads or lead a picker, re-planning around people and obstacles as it goes. - Goods-to-person robot line SL-T 2 adaptive
Drives under a shelf or pod, lifts it and carries it to a pick station, in a fenced area that people enter only under a permit. - Mobile manipulator line SL-T 2 adaptive
A collaborative arm on a mobile base that drives to a station, docks and works there, then moves on.
Zones this family sits in
| line | Line zone: the controllers, drives and stations of one production line, sharing a network and a supervisor. Conduit: line to plant supervisory: the line reports up and takes recipes down through a boundary device with a deny-by-default rule set. |
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| business | Site business zone: the IT side of the boundary, reached from the plant only through a controlled conduit. Conduit: site business to plant: brokered through the DMZ, jump host and recorded session for anything that reaches down. |
What reaches this family
| IEC 62443 | Attaches to every automated asset the owner runs, in every zone class; the rows differ by zone, by connectivity and by behaviour. Binds Part 2-1 binds the asset owner; Part 3-2 is the owner's zoning and risk assessment; Part 3-3 is what the owner specifies for the system. Part 2-4 binds the service provider and Parts 4-1 and 4-2 the product supplier, so those rows are rendered as what to ask. |
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| SP 800-82 | Attaches to every asset as the OT-specific overlay: architecture, remote access, patching in OT and incident response. Binds guidance addressed to the operator of the OT environment: it binds nobody in law and is what most OT security programmes are assessed against. |
| AI Act | Attaches only to an adaptive controller or a safety component that is an AI system; a fixed-program machine gets no row, and the page says why. Binds Articles 26 and 4 bind the deployer, which is the asset owner using the system; Articles 12 to 15 bind the provider; a deployer that substantially modifies the system becomes its provider. |
| Machinery Regulation | Attaches to every physical machine and safety component; a controller, a server or a read-only sensor carries no row of its own. Binds the manufacturer of the machine, and whoever substantially modifies it; the owner's row is what to demand at purchase and hold, and what it becomes liable for on a substantial modification. |
| ISO 27001 | Attaches the supplier and change controls to every asset and the network controls to every connected one. Binds the organisation that holds the certificate, through the Annex A controls it declared applicable. |
Register the assets in this family
Paste the list; every asset in this family is placed in its class, given its zone and SL-T, its behaviour and connectivity, and carries the rows above. Eight assets free, no account.
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