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# ANSI/RIA R15.08
> ANSI/A3 R15.08 — autonomous mobile robots in industrial settings. The US analogue to ISO 3691-4. Dual-conformance patterns for global AMR vendors.
# 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](/standards/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.
## 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).
## Relationship to ISO 3691-4
The two standards address the same problem space. The differences are:
| Area | R15.08 | ISO 3691-4 |
| --------------------------------- | --------------------------------------- | ----------------------------- |
| Issuing body | A3 (US) | ISO (international) |
| Performance-level reference | SIL CL via IEC 62061 (referenced) | PL via ISO 13849 (referenced) |
| Detection-zone specifics | Less prescriptive | More prescriptive |
| Pedestrian-environment provisions | Detailed (R15.08-3 addresses user-side) | Detailed at vehicle level |
| Substantive technical content | Substantially aligned | Substantially 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.
## 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](/standards/iso-3691-4) — they apply identically.
## 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.
## Example dual-derived requirement
```yaml theme={null}
- 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.
## Suggested patterns
The full AMR test patterns documented for [ISO 3691-4](/standards/iso-3691-4#suggested-test-patterns) 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.
## Pinning
```bash theme={null}
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.
## Next steps
The international AMR safety standard.
End-to-end workflow, applicable to R15.08 as well.