We are entering the era of robots, whereas manpower has been increasingly substituted by robotic manipulators and similar devices. In doing so, companies achieve higher quality of products in shorter production time and at lower costs. Robotic systems are more reliable and in the long term also less expensive than the human workforce.
The main problems concerning robot-driven production line are the access of the robotic manipulator, its reach and the incomplete knowledge of its surrounding.
Therefore, new systems are being developed, allowing robotic manipulators to move under the control of robotic vision. On the other hand, also workpieces can be moved by the use of conveyors or similar systems..
We will present the robotic conveyor function. This function ensures the communication between the conveyor and the workpiece on it on the one, and the robotic manipulator on the other side.
Low transport costs of workpieces make this kind of a production widely used in industry. A proper functioning is ensured by a conveyer with a position-setting device, which communicates with the robotic manipulator over a robotic device controller with an additional circuit with the conveyor function.
To ensure proper functioning of elements of such a system, the basic parameters of the robotic manipulator and the basic parameters of a conveyor function need to be set. They depend on the desired functioning and the actual setting of the system.
The conveyor function is an efficient and inexpensive solution ensuring smooth functioning of longer conveyor production lines. Proper operation can be ensured already by a robotic manipulator and robotic controller, with no major expenses.
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