Description of BS EN ISO 3691-4:2023 - TC 2023
This document specifies safety requirements and the means for their
verification for driverless industrial trucks (hereafter referred
to as trucks) and their systems. Examples of driverless industrial
trucks (trucks as defined in ISO 5053?1:2020) include: “automated
guided vehicle”, “autonomous mobile robot”, “bots”, “automated
guided cart”, “tunnel tugger”, “under cart”, etc. This document is
also applicable to driverless industrial trucks which are provided
with: — automatic modes which either require operators’
action(s) to initiate or enable such automatic operations; — the
capability to transport one or more riders (which are neither
considered as drivers nor as operators); — additional manual
modes which allow operators to operate the truck manually; or —
a maintenance mode which allows manual operation of truck functions
for maintenance reasons. This document is not applicable to trucks
solely guided by mechanical means (rails, guides, etc.) or to
remotely-controlled trucks, which are not considered to be
driverless trucks. For the purposes of this document, a driverless
industrial truck is a powered truck, which is designed to operate
automatically. A driverless truck system comprises the control
system, which can be part of the truck and/or separate from it,
guidance means and power system. Requirements for power sources are
not covered in this document. The condition of the operating zone
has a significant effect on the safe operation of the driverless
industrial truck. The preparations of the operating zone to
eliminate the associated hazards are specified in Annex A. This
document is applicable to all significant hazards, hazardous
situations or hazardous events during all phases of the life of the
truck (ISO 12100:2010, 5.4), as listed in Annex B, relevant to the
applicable machines when it is used as intended and under
conditions of misuse which are reasonably foreseeable by the
manufacturer. In particular, this document does not apply to
significant hazards related to: — noise; — vibrations; —
ionising and non-ionising radiation; — laser radiation; —
sales literature (commercial documents); — declaration of
vibrations transmitted by mobile machinery. It does not apply to
additional hazards that can occur: — during operation in severe
conditions (e.g. extreme climates, freezer applications, strong
magnetic fields); — during operation in nuclear environments; —
from trucks intended to operate in public zones (see in
particular ISO 13482:2014); — during operation on a public road;
— during operation in potentially explosive environments; —
during operation in military applications; — during operation
with specific hygienic requirements; — during operation in
ionizing radiation environments; — during the transportation of
(a) person(s) other than (the) intended rider(s); — when
handling loads the nature of which can lead to dangerous situations
(e.g. molten metals, acids/bases, radiating materials); — for
rider positions with elevation function higher than 1 200 mm from
the floor/ground to the platform floor. This document does not
contain safety requirements for trailer(s) being towed behind a
truck. This document does not contain safety requirements for
elevated operator trucks. This document does not apply to trucks
manufactured before the date of its publication.
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