Inline Inspection with an Industrial Robot (IIIR) for Mass-Customization Production Line
Robots are essential for the rapid development of Industry 4.0. In order to truly achieve autonomous robot control in customizable production lines, robots need to be accurate enough and capable of recognizing the geometry and orientation of an arbitrarily shaped object. This paper presents a method...
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| author | Zai-Gen Wu Chao-Yi Lin Hao-Wei Chang Po Ting Lin |
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| description | Robots are essential for the rapid development of Industry 4.0. In order to truly achieve autonomous robot control in customizable production lines, robots need to be accurate enough and capable of recognizing the geometry and orientation of an arbitrarily shaped object. This paper presents a method of inline inspection with an industrial robot (IIIR) for mass-customization production lines. A 3D scanner was used to capture the geometry and orientation of the object to be inspected. As the object entered the working range of the robot, the end effector moved along with the object and the camera installed at the end effector performed the requested optical inspections. The detailed information about the developed methodology was introduced in this paper. The experiments showed there was a relative movement between the moving object and the following camera and the speed was around 0.34 mm per second (worst case was around 0.94 mm per second). For a camera of 60 frames per second, the relative moving speed between the object and the camera was around 6 micron (around 16 micron for the worst case), which was stable enough for most industrial production inspections. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0afaf4abe32747ef809476617a4ae2f42023-11-20T01:43:24ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202020-05-012011300810.3390/s20113008Inline Inspection with an Industrial Robot (IIIR) for Mass-Customization Production LineZai-Gen Wu0Chao-Yi Lin1Hao-Wei Chang2Po Ting Lin3Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei 10607, TaiwanDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei 10607, TaiwanDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei 10607, TaiwanDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei 10607, TaiwanRobots are essential for the rapid development of Industry 4.0. In order to truly achieve autonomous robot control in customizable production lines, robots need to be accurate enough and capable of recognizing the geometry and orientation of an arbitrarily shaped object. This paper presents a method of inline inspection with an industrial robot (IIIR) for mass-customization production lines. A 3D scanner was used to capture the geometry and orientation of the object to be inspected. As the object entered the working range of the robot, the end effector moved along with the object and the camera installed at the end effector performed the requested optical inspections. The detailed information about the developed methodology was introduced in this paper. The experiments showed there was a relative movement between the moving object and the following camera and the speed was around 0.34 mm per second (worst case was around 0.94 mm per second). For a camera of 60 frames per second, the relative moving speed between the object and the camera was around 6 micron (around 16 micron for the worst case), which was stable enough for most industrial production inspections.https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/20/11/30083D scanner6R robot armautomatic optical inspectioncoordinate transformations |
| spellingShingle | Zai-Gen Wu Chao-Yi Lin Hao-Wei Chang Po Ting Lin Inline Inspection with an Industrial Robot (IIIR) for Mass-Customization Production Line Sensors 3D scanner 6R robot arm automatic optical inspection coordinate transformations |
| title | Inline Inspection with an Industrial Robot (IIIR) for Mass-Customization Production Line |
| title_full | Inline Inspection with an Industrial Robot (IIIR) for Mass-Customization Production Line |
| title_fullStr | Inline Inspection with an Industrial Robot (IIIR) for Mass-Customization Production Line |
| title_full_unstemmed | Inline Inspection with an Industrial Robot (IIIR) for Mass-Customization Production Line |
| title_short | Inline Inspection with an Industrial Robot (IIIR) for Mass-Customization Production Line |
| title_sort | inline inspection with an industrial robot iiir for mass customization production line |
| topic | 3D scanner 6R robot arm automatic optical inspection coordinate transformations |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/20/11/3008 |
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