Vision-Assisted Robotized Depalletizer

摘要

A vision-assisted robotized depalletizer receives at a pallet station a pallet loaded with products and outputs on a conveyor unitized products aligned in a desired orientation. Such depalletizers include a vision system having one or more image acquisition sensors that are positioned relative to the pallet station so as to have a field of view covering a top portion of the pallet. The sensors send to a controller one or more image of the top portion of the pallet that the controller uses along to determine the position of each product in the top portion of the pallet. The depalletizer further includes a robot equipped with a depalletizing tool that is coupled to the vision system controller for receiving information indicative of the position of each product from the top portion and uses that information to pick and position on the output conveyor each product from the top portion.

主权项

1. A depalletizer comprising:
a pallet unloading station for receiving a pallet of products; a vision system for taking at least one image of a top portion of the pallet received at the pallet station, and for using said at least one image for determining the position of said each product in the top portion of the pallet; and a robot equipped with a depalletizing tool; the robot being coupled to the vision system for receiving information therefrom indicative of the position of said each product from the top portion and for using that information to pick and position on an output surface said each product from the top portion.