Automatic laboratory scale production cell with vision

An automatic industrial robot system with vision was provided with active peripheral devices, to form a laboratory scale production cell for development and demonstration of related programming and control. The camera signals are processed in a computer, in order to find the identification, location and orientation of the objects arriving on a conveyor belt. The robot picks them and transfers them between the peripheral stations. Each object is first fixed on an xy-table which positions it step-by-step under two drills, for production of the particular set of holes. Processing of measured and logic data, monitoring of the system and control of its components are shared between three computers.