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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Apr 27.
Published in final edited form as: IEEE Robot Autom Mag. 2008 Jun 1;15(2):122–130. doi: 10.1109/MRA.2008.926390

Table 1.

Excerpt from a sample FMEA.

Failure Mode Effect on System Causes Methods of Control*
Robot out of control Robot may hit something Encoder failure, broken wire Trip relay when error tolerance exceeded
Robot out of control Robot may hit something Amplifier failure Trip relay when error tolerance exceeded
*

Methods of control can initially be empty and then populated during the design phase.