Robotiq Camera Kit for Universal Robots

JeanPhilippe_Jobin

Hi everyone,

You probably have seen our sneak peek video on plug+play vision system for UR last week.

Now see more of the teaching interface in our exclusive official video for the Camera Kit for Universal Robots. This video will be released on June 21, so don’t share it outside of DoF!

https://robotiq.wistia.com/medias/9zduupqdn6

Keep a look out for our public launch on June 21, 2016.

Enjoy!

Fabio_Facchinetti

Looks great! Ur-Baxter is coming!! Compliments. I'm very curious to see interface

Kaleb_Rodes

@JeanPhilippe_Jobin Does the camera recognize the parts in a random order for the robot to pick? Or is there a way to set which part gets picked up first, second, etc.?

Samuel_Bouchard

facchifunk you'll have the chance to see it first hand next week.

@Kaleb_Rodes the robot decides which parts to pick next. The one being picked is the one which matches the best the pattern taught in the vision algorithm. Makes sense?

Kaleb_Rodes

@Samuel_Bouchard Yes, so a best fit scenario. Thanks!

Fabio_Facchinetti

What about if some part to be picked are overlapped or are in touch?

Nicolas_Lauzier

facchifunk said:

What about if some part to be picked are overlapped or are in touch?

The calibration works in a plane so any overlapped object will be seen with some imprecision (especially in height). We do not recommend this use case.

If objects are in touch (no overlap), they will be detected correctly. However, we do not check if the grip position is valid and as such it is not a scenario that we recommend for now. In the case of a grip position on the object which cannot produce collision (with the gripper or robot), this would work fine.

Enric

He is cool. I want to try it!

Samuel_Bouchard

@Enric you'll be among the first to get one! Thank you again for arranging the feedback interviews with your customers, you contributed to this product! 

matthewd92

Looking forward to seeing this first hand next week.  How quickly does it recognize the part?  We have a potential couple of applications coming up where this could be very useful

Nicolas_Hardy

Hi Matt,

A typical wait time would be 0.5 to 1 sec (worst case scenario), but it varies depending on your part features and background. Could you tell us a bit more about the parts or send a picture?

markus_rothtechnik

Now that you got the 2d world covered, go on and develop a low cost 3D plug and play wrist camera for real 3d bin picking :-)
sort of like this one: http://www.pickit3d.com but only better and cheaper :-)

JeanPhilippe_Jobin

@markus_rothtechnik

• Did you ever get the chance to try this pickit solution? Any comments? What do you mean by "better"?
• What do you personally consider the big challenges for bin picking?

Fabio_Facchinetti

I think It will be good to have a documents with sw functionality or, better, a manual. Is there something available right now? We are placing some offer right now and customer are asking different questions...

Karine_Simard

@facchifunk we are working on it! In the mean time, you can get the spec sheet here: http://robotiq.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/specsheet-camera-EN-June2016-final.pdf

markus_rothtechnik

@JeanPhilippe_Jobin
yes i did, and they were also at automatica last week. Better means better resolution, better price, better accuracy. Interface, ease of use is great with pick it. However 14000 euros are not that great. 
Greatest challenge for bin picking is probably object detection algorythm , light conditions, and the options available for object/surface/target detection, filtering, "make good use" of the point cloud data the cam delivers. This requires some serious calculation power especiall w high res. And of course plug and play integration with the robot is key. Pick it is great, but i think the prices of 3d cam kits will drop and resolution and functionalit will increase seriously in the future. Or at least i hope.

markus_rothtechnik

Question: can i use the camera with two robotiq grippers on one ur bot? Of course i would have to make an adapter to connect them all correctly to the bus but would it technically be possible and supported by robotiq?
i have a great idea for making a universal gripper witj object detection for an injection moulding machine. If it works it would be fantastic since my customer would not need 10 different magazines for his inlay parts but only a flat surface where the vam can locate them on. Thank you for feedback and possibly instrucrions on how to equip a UR with two grippers and a cam.

Etienne_Samson

@facchifunk complete documentation on the vision system will be available on the first week of august, or before.

Right now I updated the support website and you have a page with CAD files and preliminary spec sheet. More to come in July !

http://support.robotiq.com/display/Home/Vision+System

JeanPhilippe_Jobin

@markus_rothtechnik
Thanks for the precisions/comments on pickit3d.

About the use of multi-grippers with Robotiq Camera, it was not design for this but it would work. But please note that:

• Each gripper shall be cabled with original 2F cable (would not work with camera cable)
• The grippers shall not be seen by the camera. I suggest a "Y" or a "T" configuration.
• Grippers shall be programmed using multi-grippers beta drivers (since 2F gripper URCaps does not support multi-grippers yet)

Etienne_Samson

@markus_rothtechnik if you want to use the multi-gripper beta driver that JP as mentionned go see my post in this : http://dof.robotiq.com/discussion/134/integration-2-grippers-a-1-ur-robot

markus_rothtechnik

Great thanks! That was great help and great news.
Any general time schedule when the ur+(Caps) sw package will support multiple grippers?

JeanPhilippe_Jobin

@markus_rothtechnik

Unfortunately we don't have a clear schedule for this functionality, but hopefully before 2017.