This news article was originally written in Spanish. It has been automatically translated for your convenience. Reasonable efforts have been made to provide an accurate translation, however, no automated translation is perfect nor is it intended to replace a human translator. The original article in Spanish can be viewed at Un solo robot para paletizar o apilar piezas irregulares

Coming from different lines of arrival

A single robot for palletizing and stacking irregular pieces

15/08/2006

Inser Robotics, S.A. is an engineering company with more than 20 years of experience in robotic solutions, with more than 200 designs in the field of the palletizing and stacking robots. Recently he has developed a system that can, with a single robot that occupies very little space, palletizing and stacking different pieces together.

The robotic system is completely autonomous and is responsible for collecting the pieces of a tray and paletizarlas in their respective palettes, the robot is able to handle different lines with different types of pieces. The system identifies the parts without the intervention of any operator, by means of an integrated system of machine vision.

In this way the robot knows at all times the piece that should be treated and determined the place in which it must be palletized or piled.

Once the robot ends a pallet warns the operator that withdraw it. Once removed the pallet manually, the operator must enter a new palette in the right place.

A difficulty common to automate processes of stacking is the irregularity of the pieces. This hinders the adequate training of the pallets or piles, making in palletizing often need to be overlap with other pieces. Inser Robotics solves it with a robot which also performs operations of dumping of the pieces alternately.

This operation is done by the robot in a table prepared for that purpose.

In addition, and precisely because of the irregularity of the same, it is necessary to check that all the pieces of the pallet are at the same level.

For the detection of level differences the robot performs a measurement of the height of the layer at different points when it finishes paletizarla.

If the difference exceeds a limit determined by the operator, the robot is for and indicates to the operator that you must enter level pallet.