Manipulation, loading and downloading products.
One of the demands for consumer product manipulation, due to its compact size, speed and high precision movement.
Applications developed to fit the productive needs of our clients, with high range flexibility in movement execution and programming, offering the possibility of equipping the installation with and artificial vision system, if necessary.
Vision-guided robotic loading cell or assortment packer
The machine comprises a robot mounted on a frame which overlaps two feeding conveyors running in parallel. One conveyor is feeding the products and another the cartons. The robot picks the products randomly moving on the conveyor belt and places them into the moving cartons. The instantaneous location of moving products is computed by the vision system acquiring images from a stationary camera. Meanwhile a registration sensor is used to track the position of the cartons. This is the accurate tracking of both conveyors which enables the robot to pick and place products from one running conveyor to another.
Robotic control system
Robotic systems can be used efficiently either as a Primary infeed module or as a Secondary or End-offline loading solution.
With the integration of robotic software object libraries into IEC controllers, robots have become easy to deploy and easy to maintain which promotes greatly their use.
Machine mainfunction groups
1. Product infeed conveyor: A servo-controlled conveyor belt conveys products which are randomly spaced on its surface.
2. Product detection and registration: A vision camera and an encoder register the positions of the products and store dynamically the values in a FIFO data buffer before being sent to the robot.
3. Carton infeed conveyor: Two servo-controlled lateral chains are provided with indexing lugs which engage the front side and back side of the carton.
4. Carton detection and registration: An encoder and a registration cell register the position of empty slots in the carton and store dynamically the values in a FIFO data buffer before being sent to the robot.
5. Robotised transfer system: The Delta-3 robot picks moving products and places them into moving containers.