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A question that we get a lot since the release of our camera is emptying parts from a tray. I had to make a demo for a client this week where the client wanted to empty trays with parts to then load the parts in a machine. Placing/loading the part was not a concern to the client. The concern he had was the location of the tray and the location of the parts within the tray with the Robotiq Camera. Another request from the client was that he wanted to have a signal on the tray such that the operator can come and replace the tray anytime and the robot would empty it without having to press any buttons. Below is a video of the demo that I made. You will see a limit switch that detects the presence of the tray. The tricky thing here was to program the logic of the tray signal to see only rises of the tray signal to detect that a new tray was loaded. In my program, since I used a NC switch, the DI3 which is when the switch turns off when the tray is placed. To monitor this signal I used a variable called newTray1In that is updated in a thread.
Wait: 0.5 If tray1PrevState≟ True and digital_in[3]≟ False newTray1In≔ True tray1PrevState≔digital_in[3]https://youtu.be/ktocAyDyUIo
The other tricky part was the teaching of the object with the camera. First I needed to have the vision calibration board at the same height of the pieces in the tray. So I used a couple of shims that my calibration board would lay on. Then I simply calibrated the snapshot position as usual. Then I tried using the yellow background but that did not work. Not enough contrast with my brass component. So I used the blue cardboard that is provided with the camera as a background and that worked perfectly. Since the part is round, I also checked the ‘ignore object orientation’ box in the Camera locate setup.
One comment that I have for this application that I thought would be more easily is monitoring the signal of the limit switch. Anyone else has other ways to monitor Rising signals?
BeforeStart tray1PrevState≔digital_in[3] newTray1In≔ False Robot Program Wait: 2.0 MoveL Waypoint_4 If newTray1In≟ True obj_found≔ True newTray1In≔ False Loop digital_in[3]≟ False and obj_found≟ True obj_found≔ False MoveL Waypoint_1 Camera Locate Gripper Move 63% obj_found≔ True MoveL Waypoint_2 Waypoint_3 Gripper Close Waypoint_2 MoveL Waypoint_5 Waypoint_6 Gripper Open Waypoint_5