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ANSI/RIA R15.08

ANSI/A3 R15.08 (formerly ANSI/RIA R15.08) is the US national standard for industrial mobile robots. The R15.08 series covers AMRs operating in industrial settings — warehouses, factories, mixed pedestrian-AMR environments.
  • R15.08-1 — Industrial mobile robots: safety requirements (the AMR itself).
  • R15.08-2 — Industrial mobile robot systems and the integration of attachments.
  • R15.08-3 — User-side requirements for the operating environment.
The R15.08 family is published by the Association for Advancing Automation (A3, formerly RIA). It is the US analogue to ISO 3691-4; a global AMR vendor typically aims to satisfy both for sales into US and EU markets.
Roboticks is audit-readiness tooling, not a certified toolchain. We assemble the evidence your notified body, certification body, or QA process ingests. We do not replace tool qualification (DO-178C, ISO 26262-8 TCL) and we do not issue conformity assessments. Verify the regulatory interpretations on this page against the standard text and your accredited assessor.

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Scope

R15.08-1 applies to:
  • Industrial mobile robots designed for material handling, transport, and similar industrial tasks.
  • Both AGV-style (predefined paths) and AMR-style (autonomous navigation) vehicles.
  • The vehicle and its onboard safety-related control system.
R15.08-2 applies to:
  • The system as deployed, including attachments (conveyors, lifts, manipulators mounted on the mobile base).
R15.08-3 applies to:
  • The end-user / operator obligations — site preparation, signage, operator training.
For Roboticks customers shipping the AMR product, R15.08-1 and -2 are the primary obligations; R15.08-3 is typically an end-user concern (though documented in the product’s instructions for use).

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Relationship to ISO 3691-4

The two standards address the same problem space. The differences are:
AreaR15.08ISO 3691-4
Issuing bodyA3 (US)ISO (international)
Performance-level referenceSIL CL via IEC 62061 (referenced)PL via ISO 13849 (referenced)
Detection-zone specificsLess prescriptiveMore prescriptive
Pedestrian-environment provisionsDetailed (R15.08-3 addresses user-side)Detailed at vehicle level
Substantive technical contentSubstantially alignedSubstantially aligned
For most safety functions, the technical content overlaps heavily. A dual-conformance project pins both standards, derives requirements that reference both (the derives_from array supports multiple entries), and produces one evidence pack that demonstrates conformance to both.

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What Roboticks supports

  • Clause-level derivation from R15.08-1 and R15.08-2.
  • Dual derivation — one requirement can derive from both R15.08-1 and ISO 3691-4 clauses simultaneously. The evidence pack groups by standard and shows the requirement under each.
  • All the AMR test patterns described under ISO 3691-4 — they apply identically.

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What Roboticks does not do

  • We do not certify under R15.08 — there is no equivalent of EU notified-body conformity assessment for R15.08; conformance is typically self-declared with third-party validation common.
  • We do not generate the R15.08-3 site documentation — that is the end-user’s deployment obligation, not a Roboticks product output.

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Example dual-derived requirement

- id: REQ-AMR-014
  title: Stopping distance with full pallet at 1.5 m/s
  type: safety
  asil_pl: PLd
  derives_from:
    - standard: iso-3691-4-2023
      clause: "§5.6 Stopping distance"
      edition: "2023"
    - standard: ansi-ria-r15-08-1-2023
      clause: "§5.4 Stopping performance"
      edition: "2023"
  text: |
    With a fully loaded pallet (1500 kg payload), operating in
    automatic mode at 1.5 m/s, on detection of an obstacle in the
    forward warning zone, the AMR shall come to a complete stop
    with no contact, within the configured warning-zone depth of
    1.2 m.
  acceptance:
    - test: tests/amr/test_stopping_distance.py::test_loaded_15ms_warning_zone
The evidence pack shows this requirement under both the ISO 3691-4 conformance section and the R15.08-1 conformance section, with the same verification result.

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Suggested patterns

The full AMR test patterns documented for ISO 3691-4 apply directly. The dual-conformance project structure is:
  1. Pin both standards.
  2. Author requirements with derives_from referencing both standards’ clauses where they substantively align.
  3. Author standard-specific requirements where the standards diverge (rare in technical content, common in documentation requirements).
  4. Generate a single evidence pack per release. The pack shows two conformance sections side by side.

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Pinning

rbtk standard pin ansi-ria-r15-08-1-2023 --project acme-amr/firmware
rbtk standard pin ansi-ria-r15-08-2-2023 --project acme-amr/system-integration
R15.08 is part of the amr-us bulk template, alongside ANSI B11.0-family standards for the general-machinery context.

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Next steps

ISO 3691-4

The international AMR safety standard.

AMR compliance pattern

End-to-end workflow, applicable to R15.08 as well.