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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 12, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 03, 2009
Yasunori Nishihara, Shizuoka, JP;
Yasunori Nishihara, Shizuoka, JP;
Toshiba Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A handling apparatus having a belt conveyor () for conveying a work (), a robot () for performing a predetermined operation for the work (), a visual sensor () for photographing the work () being conveyed to produce work data indicating each work () in the photographed image, and a robot controller () for gathering the work data for each image thereby to produce a tracking data, and for storing the tracking data in a database, thereby to control the robot () with the database so that a predetermined operation is performed on the work () transferred to the position of the robot (). The robot controller () performs a predetermined calculation on the work data read out from the database, detects the overlapped work data, and cancels the control of the actions of the robot () based on the overlapped work data. The robot controller () rearranges the sequences, in which the robot () performs the operation on each work ().