A Picking Strategy for Circular Conveyor Tracking

— The automatic part feeding is one of the most crucial task in modern assembly lines. Such a task consists in the separation of parts delivered in bulk and their presentation in a certain amount and orientation at the pick-up location. The traditional Vibratory Bowl Feeder (VBF) is no longer suitable for the modern plants which require high velocity and increasing flexibility. In this work the Ars FlexiBowlTM has been identified as one of the most interesting flexible feeders. A proper path planning algorithm is proposed for Adept Robots in order to take full advantage from this feeder. A robot workcell is used as experimental setup in order to prove the usefulness of the proposed algorithm. Keywords—robotics; path-planning; flexible feeder; system calibration.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2016
• Where: JIRS
• Authors: Giovanni Boschetti
• Keywords: JIRS 2016