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Emergency shutdown meaning all the huge robot arms fall down, instead of just freezing in place, doesn't sound like a good idea to start with :)
by euyyn 9y ago
Emergency shutdown meaning all the huge robot arms fall down, instead of just freezing in place, doesn't sound like a good idea to start with :)
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- bigger_cheese 9y agoHydraulics are scary things there can be a lot of stored energy released very quickly if one of them gives out suddenly. I've heard horror stories about limb amputations etc due to sudden release of hydraulic pressure causing shrapnel to go flying across the room. If there is a fault the safest thing for them to do is bleed out energy slowly unfortunately in this case sounds like this crushed the 'obstruction' in the process. My Industrial plant code screwup story was not caused by me but was pretty impressive, what was supposed to be a "simple firewall change" knocked out communication between two interlinked parts of our plant which caused the line to stop and a big delay with a few million dollars lost. I believe the root cause was someone fat fingered the addition of a new firewall rule and we ended up dropping every incoming packet.
- vacri 9y agoCutting power = you know that the arms will go slack. Freezing = you hope that whatever the problem is, maintaining power doesn't make it worse.