Solution
While the feeder spreads and vision reads, the Cartesian robot picks and places one part every ~2 seconds
The UNI FEEDER flexible feeder, RoboEye machine vision and a Cartesian robot were integrated into a single flow. The feeder spreads the plastic injection-molded parts on the feed surface, vision recognizes the position and orientation of each part in real time, and the Cartesian robot performs high-speed pick-and-place at those coordinates. Because there is no assumption that parts are loaded in a predetermined pose, injection-molded parts of various shapes are handled with the same configuration.
- Feeding — UNI FEEDER flexible feeder
- Recognition — RoboEye machine vision (real-time position and orientation recognition)
- Handling — Cartesian robot high-speed pick-and-place
Results
A cycle time of about 2 seconds while keeping the feeding method flexible
- Pick-and-place cycle time of about 2 seconds — based on the plastic injection-molded parts shown in the video.
- Plastic injection-molded parts of various shapes were fed stably with the same feeder.
- Position and orientation are recognized in real time, and Cartesian robot pick coordinates are passed according to the pose each part lies in.
- Configured on the premise of a production environment where items change.
- Scope of disclosure — the public material for this case is a 1-minute-11-second video of the system in operation.
