This involves automatically recognizing objects in a container, grasping them and taking them out. The challenge here is the usually chaotic arrangement of the objects. To meet it, KUKA offers a complete solution according to customer requirements.
Bin picking
The classic tasks of industrial robots include loading components or transferring them from one place to another. Increasing demands and complexity in the manufacturing industry require industrial robots to be able to detect and identify parts as quickly as possible, in addition to simple loading and unloading. This is where bin picking comes into play. Bin picking comprises three steps in which the randomly arranged objects are recognized, picked up and placed in a new position.
Step 1: recognizing the object
The first step is to determine whether the parts are structured, semi-structured or chaotically arranged. The vision system must analyze the environment and detect the position of the individual components. To enable it to do so, the …