Robot Automation Demo

A Stäubli robot is doing vision-guided pick-and-place operations (15.8 MByte WMV video)

Schematic of setup for the demonstration

Food automation

Demonstration

The demonstration video (15.8 MByte WMV) shows the robot picking up circular and square-shaped objects (made of foamed material) and stacking them on the right side of the table. At the end of the demonstration the objects are sorted by shape.

Setup

The setup is using a low-cost Unibrain firewire camera and a laptop PC with GNU/Linux and the demo-software which was developed using Mimas. The Stäubli robot can be controlled by specifying point-to-point trajectories and giving commands for operating the gripper.

See Also

• Mimas

External Links

• Stäubli textile machinery, connectors and robotics
• Unibrain firewire cameras
• Rotating calipers homepage
• Ellips Vision Technology grading and sorting of fruit and vegetables
• Dipix Technologies Inc. automated inspection solutions for the processed food industry
• Raque Food Systems, LLC production systems for creating and packaging food