Seeing the pieces with vision guided robotic systems

While robot­ic sys­tems have sev­er­al advan­tages on their own, includ­ing an increase in speed with a reduc­tion of pro­duc­tion and labor costs, there are oth­er ways to boost the advan­tages of a robot sys­tem. One of those ways is to inte­grate vision into the system.

Vision guid­ed robot­ic sys­tems have three com­po­nents, includ­ing the robot­ic sys­tem itself, along with the vision com­po­nent and the han­dling com­po­nent, which is usu­al­ly a con­vey­or of some sort. While vision robot­ic sys­tems are pri­mar­i­ly used for mate­r­i­al han­dling appli­ca­tions, they can also be used for some weld­ing applications.

As parts are loaded onto the con­vey­or, the vision fea­ture of the robot­ic sys­tem can track these work pieces and record the exact coor­di­nates, which it then feeds to the robot. Once the robot has the pic­ture of which is the cor­rect work piece to manip­u­late, it can then start to accept or reject pieces based on the pro­grammed criteria.

While vision can be fit­ted to a robot, as list­ed above, it can also be placed at a sta­tion­ary point on the pro­duc­tion line to per­form qual­i­ty con­trol assess­ments after the robot has fin­ished its appli­ca­tion. This allows man­u­fac­tur­ers to more accu­rate­ly track pack­ages and cut down on errors.

There are sev­er­al advan­tages to choos­ing a robot­ic vision-guid­ed sys­tem. This sys­tem allows the man­u­fac­tur­er to switch prod­ucts and batch runs with­out mechan­i­cal adjust­ments. It can all be done with soft­ware. These robot­ic sys­tems also reduce cycle times, while increas­ing effi­cien­cy, reli­a­bil­i­ty and flex­i­bil­i­ty of the pro­duc­tion line.

Robots​.com sells robots from Fanuc, Motoman, ABB, Uni­ver­sal Robots, and KUKA, has the capa­bil­i­ty to inte­grate vision fea­tures onto almost any mate­r­i­al han­dling or weld­ing robot. Robots​.com helps cus­tomers to design the per­fect robot sys­tem to fit their needs.

For more infor­ma­tion on inte­grat­ing a robot­ic sys­tem with vision capa­bil­i­ties, con­tact Robots​.com today online or at 877−762−6881.