Picking the right robot picking software

Robots have an advan­tage over humans when it comes to repeat­ed­ly pick­ing some­thing up and plac­ing it some­where else. Robots can work tire­less­ly with­out suf­fer­ing from a sore back, unlike their human coun­ter­parts. Pick­ing robot soft­ware was devel­oped to assist the robot in the task of per­form­ing repet­i­tive motions accu­rate­ly and quickly.

Fanuc​’s Pick­Pro is pick­ing offline sim­u­la­tion soft­ware. Pick­Pro, new 3D soft­ware, allows users to devel­op their own work cells from scratch by using the New Work­cell Wiz­ard. This saves the user time that can be con­sumed when devel­op­ing a work­cell.

ABB designed Pick­Mas­ter soft­ware for this explic­it pur­pose. Pick­Mas­ter is a PC-based soft­ware that uses graph­i­cal inter­faces. The impres­sive appli­ca­tions allow up to eight robots to work as a group along con­vey­or belts with min­i­mal risks. The soft­ware is com­prised of a pow­er­ful vision iden­ti­fi­ca­tion sys­tem, as well as a track­ing process and inspec­tion tools. Specif­i­cal­ly, Pick­Mas­ter 3 has a notable track record for the past six years with pick­ing robots. It has an inte­grat­ed vision sys­tem, yet is not lim­it­ed to its own sys­tem; it can com­mu­ni­cate with any exter­nal sen­sor as well.

Uni­ver­sal Robot­ics devel­oped Spa­tial Vision Robot­ics Soft­ware to focus on sens­ing, con­trol, and intel­li­gence dur­ing the pick­ing process. The soft­ware is com­pat­i­ble with any robot and with a wide vari­ety of dif­fer­ent types of sen­sors. There are three res­o­lu­tions: stan­dard, enhanced, and pre­mi­um, so the user can tai­lor the type of res­o­lu­tion to the work he needs to accom­plish. After the cam­eras and sen­sors are cal­i­brat­ed, Spa­tial Vision Robot­ics soft­ware trans­fers 3D input to the robot. It obtains a 3D view of the box­es to be picked, detects the parts, selects the parts to be moved, and mon­i­tors the robot motion as it places the part. 

Coor­di­nat­ing with this soft­ware is Uni­ver­sal Robot­ics’ cut­ting-edge appli­ca­tion Ran­dom Bin Pick­ing. It was devel­oped because typ­i­cal vision approach­es can­not detect dif­fer­ent parts in a ran­dom pile, or how to pick them up. This appli­ca­tion allows the robot to auto­mat­i­cal­ly move ran­dom­ly placed parts, and is not deterred by how deep the stack might be, or how the parts are packed (loose or tight, on the floor or in a box, etc).

Save mon­ey, save time, and save your back with this soft­ware designed for pick­ing robots! Robots​.com coor­di­nates with their cus­tomers to find the right type of robot­ic soft­ware for their appli­ca­tion. Con­tact Robots​.com today for more infor­ma­tion online or at 877−762−6881.