Guided Pick with Robot-Mounted Camera

System Configuration

Application:

Pick Part and place it on a fixed location with identical pose.

Camera 1: Mounted on the robot.
PartID 1:

Locate Part to determine the pick pose.

Prerequisites:
  • The system is calibrated.
  • The PartID of Part is assigned in the VGRDefine* function on the spreadsheet.
  • The feature finder referenced by the function is trained to find the part.

Training

  1. Move the robot in the appropriate pick pose for Part.

    Command: TTR,1,<current robot pose>

  2. Release Part, which remains in place. Move to the acquisition pose for Part.

    Command: TT,1,<current robot pose>

Run Time

Part is in an arbitrary run-time pose.

  1. Move to the acquisition pose to locate Part.

    Command: XT,1,ABS,<current robot pose>

    Return string: XT,1,<run-time pick pose>

  2. Move to the returned pose and pick Part.

  3. Move to the fixed pose that is pre-trained on the robot controller to place Part.