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ROBOTICS · POSITION GUIDANCE

Vision Guidance for Pallet and Conveyor Pick and Place

Qualitas supplied the vision guidance for a robotic cell delivered through an automation integrator to an appliance manufacturer. The system located components and provided positions for robot pick and place.

The challenge

What needed solving

Parts presented on a pallet or conveyor did not all occupy the same position and angle. The robot needed component coordinates from the vision system rather than relying only on fixed pick points.

The solution

How Qualitas solved it

Camera images and vision matching located the components. Calibration connected image positions with physical coordinates, allowing the vision results to guide the robot controller.

Locating components on the pallet

Captured components at different positions and angles.
Camera view of the component pallet.

Turning image locations into usable coordinates

Checkerboard calibration in Sherlock vision software.
  • Capture the component area and locate the part features used for guidance.
  • Determine position and orientation using the project’s vision matching setup.
  • Apply the calibrated image-to-world mapping and communicate coordinates to the robot controller.

Qualitas supplied the vision guidance; the automation integrator supplied the wider robotic cell.

Related Qualitas robot-guidance footage

Public Qualitas footage illustrates the camera-to-robot guidance workflow. The end customer remains anonymous.

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