18th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI'06)
Constructing a Simple Visually-Guided Robotic Part-Grasping System with Off-the-Shelf Components
Arlington, Virginia
November 13-November 15
ISBN: 0-7695-2728-0
A novel approach to grasping and recognizing parts in an industrial robotic work cell is presented in this paper. The centroid, orientation, and length of elongated parts lying on a flat work area are estimated by a sequence of simple algorithms. Off-theshelf components and freely downloadable software APIs make this system inexpensive and easily implemented. The approach has been implemented and tested with a St?ubli RX60 manipulator. Results and future research are presented.