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To rapidly feed industrial parts on an assembly line, Carlisle et. al. [4] proposed a flexible part feeding system that drops parts on a flat conveyor belt, determines their pose (position and orientation) with a vision system and uses a high-speed scara robot to move them to a pallet in a desired pose. Such a feeder can be rapidly configured and reconfigured to handle a variety of parts. To facilitate rapid set-up of assembly lines, a simulator can provide visualization and realistic timing estimates. This paper focuses on estimating feeder throughput, which determines the “heartbeat” of an assembly line.
goldberg@usc.edu. This work was supported in part by Adept Technology, Inc.
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Goldberg, K., Craig, J., Carlisle, B., Zanutta, R. (1997). Estimating throughput for a flexible part feeder. In: Khatib, O., Salisbury, J.K. (eds) Experimental Robotics IV. Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, vol 223. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0035238
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