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vern777

pick and place with kuka and cognex

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hello Is there anyone who has succesfully done a pick and place with kuka and cognex 5400r, from a moving conveyor? I can pick and place from a stationary position, but the challange now is to be able to do it all in motion Regards Vernon

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You will need the conveyor tech from KUKA to be able to get the part from the belt… Also the belt will need an encoder to give the proper feedback to the robot and to allow it to follow the belt… Typically those applications work in the following way: 1. The camera captures the position and orientation of the part in a given encoder position of the belt. 2. The robot uses that information to pick the part and follows the belt automatically using an internal software (in that case (KUKA) it is named conveyor tech). If you can’t afford the “conveyor tech” then you will have to ensure that the belt won’t change it’s speed during the pick operation and make all the movements calculation… a small nightmare… it is not impossible, but in those cases conveyor tech makes it… I still remember the last time I had to calculate a reorientation of the 6th axis (continuous turning) while the robot was performing a complete path… :O Get information of the conveyor tech here: http://www.kuka-robotics.com/en/products/software/application_software/ Good luck!

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