Vision guided flexible feeding made easy
Abstract
Flexible feeding is an emerging alternative to traditional part feeding methods. This alternative greatly enhances the versatility of a manufacturing workcell by using a robot manipulator and sophisticated sensing devices such as machine vision, thereby significantly reducing both cost and set up time. This article explores the benefits of a new model in PC‐based robot control, which makes the development of flexible feeders and similar applications much easier than using traditional robot programming environments. It also explores how a programming paradigm based on a well‐defined model of the workcell greatly simplifies both the logic of the application and the calibration of the physical machine.
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Citation
Sorensen, S. and Stringham, R. (1999), "Vision guided flexible feeding made easy", Industrial Robot, Vol. 26 No. 2, pp. 99-104. https://doi.org/10.1108/01439919910260213
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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