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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 27, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 13, 2017
Applicant:
Cognex Corporation, Natick, MA (US);
Inventors:
Guruprasad Shivaram, Wellesley, MA (US);
Gang Liu, Natick, MA (US);
Assignee:
COGNEX CORPORATION, Natick, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B25J 9/16 (2006.01); H04N 7/18 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B25J 9/1692 (2013.01); B25J 9/1697 (2013.01); H04N 7/181 (2013.01);
Abstract
A vision-based manipulations system can be configured for, and can be operated with methods including, performing hand-eye calibrations at multiple workstations of the system, performing a cross-station calibration for the system, and determining relationships between the hand-eye calibrations and the cross-station calibration. In some embodiments, the system can be used to move a work object between the workstations based on the cross-station calibration.