RoundRobin Application

This robot cell was developed as a delta showcase for fairs. It shows a typical pick and place task for delta robots in conjunction with conveyor belts.

Developer: CPR

You can find a video of the result here!

Program files: RoundRobin_Programs.zip

Setup

Robot Type: igus Delta DLE-DR-1000-3

The delta robot is equipped with a vacuum pump for picking little glasses with metal caps.

Whenever the robot is idle, it picks a glass from a tray and places them on the first conveyor. The conveyor then sorts the glasses into of the two end positions using a Apiro rotary unit as lane adjustment tool. In a real application a suitable sensor would analyse the glasses and sort them accordingly. Here it switches the destination after each glass.

Once the glass reaches the end holder, a light barrier detects it and sends a signal to the robot control. The robot then picks the glass from there and, depending on the position of the glass, puts it back into the middle tray, or onto the second conveyor.

The second conveyor simply transports the glasses forward. In a real application, this conveyor belt would lead outside of the cell for further processing. Here it stops at the end, where the delta robot can pick it and put it back into the tray.

This setup works infinitely with a variable amount of objects.