Looking into the Future with Vision Robot Software

Although robots can’t fix their make­up and hair in the mir­ror, the lat­est tech­nolo­gies are allow­ing them to ​“see.” Vision robot soft­ware per­mits robots to locate parts to be picked up and fig­ure out where to put that part down, on the sim­plest lev­el. Depend­ing on the user’s needs, whether sim­ple or more com­plex, there are plen­ty of options for robot vision soft­ware available.

Fanuc’s break­through tech­nol­o­gy iRVi­sion comes with sev­er­al options: 2D Sin­gle, 2D Mul­ti­ple (in which an option­al cam­era mul­ti­plex­er is added), 3D Sin­gle (equipped with a 3DL Sin­gle-Sen­sor Sys­tem), and 3D Mul­ti-Sen­sor for 2D and 3D pro­cess­ing. iRVi­sion uses Geo­met­ric Pat­tern Match­ing for object loca­tion, and the pos­si­bil­i­ties with this soft­ware are endless.

Fanuc also offers 2DVision Guid­ance soft­ware, which is ide­al­ly used to move the robot to the loca­tion of the part. 3DL Vision Guid­ance soft­ware projects lasers to find parts regard­less of their posi­tion or ori­en­ta­tion. Visu­al Line Track­ing soft­ware will encour­age the robot to pick prod­ucts from a mov­ing con­vey­or. Vision Guid­ed Depal­letiz­ing con­sists of a 2D cam­era sys­tem that can eval­u­ate the size of parts for pick­ing, pack­ing, or pal­letiz­ing.

Motoman has also devel­oped sev­er­al vision soft­ware options. Moto­Sight 2D fea­tures a Cognex In-Sight Micro Cam­era and is used for robot guid­ance, error proof­ing, part iden­ti­fi­ca­tion and inspec­tion, and pick­ing. Moto­Sight 2D with MotoPick will locate parts that are ran­dom­ly ori­ent­ed on a mov­ing con­vey­or. Moto­Sight 3D Cor­texVi­sion makes the use of 3D Vision in robot­ic guid­ance sim­ple, and is suit­ed well for pre­cise part loca­tion. No cal­i­bra­tion is required, and the self-learn­ing tech­nol­o­gy can auto­mat­i­cal­ly adjust the posi­tion of the cam­era to locate parts. Moto­Sight 3D Spa­tial Vision uses scal­able 3D vision guid­ance. This soft­ware is per­fect for find­ing box­es in a 3D space and pal­letiz­ing or depal­letiz­ing them.

Robot­ic Vision Tech­nolo­gies cre­at­ed eVi­sion­Fac­to­ry, which com­bines a sin­gle cam­era 3D tech­nol­o­gy with Ran­dom Bin Pick­ing and Vision Guid­ed Robot­ic tech­nolo­gies. Robot guid­ance and visu­al recog­ni­tion with the newest 6.5 ver­sion of eVi­sion­Fac­to­ry is ide­al for man­u­fac­tur­ing, sit­u­a­tion­al aware­ness, mate­r­i­al han­dling, and more.

Skil­li­gent Robot Vision Sys­tem is soft­ware that employs object track­ing algo­rithms with sig­nif­i­cant object recog­ni­tion. Once an object has been rec­og­nized, the soft­ware keeps it in an indexed struc­ture for reduced search time.

Robo­Re­alm is robot vision soft­ware that can be used with not only robot­ic vision sys­tems, but com­put­er vision and image analy­sis as well. A USB web­cam and a PC are all the user needs to add vision to robot­ic projects. The soft­ware allows the user to view the robot’s envi­ron­ment, process the image, deter­mine the next step to take, and send the appro­pri­ate sig­nal to the robot, which can track objects, nav­i­gate as nec­es­sary and avoid obsta­cles in its path.

While self-aware robots are fur­ther into the future, the val­ue of vision soft­ware is appar­ent. Robots​.com does have vision soft­ware avail­able with par­tic­u­lar robot sys­tems. Con­tact us today to start incor­po­rat­ing vision into your factory.

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