Automation of product packaging for industrial applications

Autor: Malte Wirkus, Carlos Perez-Vidal, J. M. de Paco, José M. Azorín, J. de Gea, Luis Gracia
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
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ISSN: 1362-3052
0951-192X
DOI: 10.1080/0951192x.2017.1369165
Popis: [EN] This work presents a robotic-based solution devised to automate the product packaging in industrial environments. Although the proposed approach is illustrated for the case of the shoe industry, it applies to many other products requiring similar packaging processes. The main advantage obtained with the automated task is that productivity could be significantly increased. The key algorithms for the developed robot system are: object detection using a computer vision system; object grasping; trajectory planning with collision avoidance; and operator interaction using a force/torque sensor. All these algorithms have been experimentally tested in the laboratory to show the effectiveness and applicability of the proposed approach.
This work has been partly supported by Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad of the Spanish Government [Grant No. RTC201654086 and PRI-AIBDE-2011-1219], by the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) of the German Government (Projekt-ID 54368155) and by ROBOFOOT project [Grant No. 260159] of the European Commission.
Databáze: OpenAIRE