Split robotic article pick and put system
First Claim
1. An article pick and put system, comprising:
- a first robotic system comprising a first vision system and a first robotic manipulator;
a second robotic system comprising a second vision system and a second robotic manipulator;
an article support at a first pick location and an article support at a second place location;
said first vision system adapted to obtain coordinates of an article at said first pick location and said first robotic manipulator adapted to respond to the coordinates of that article to pick that article from said first pick location and place that article at a first place location;
said second vision system adapted to obtain position and orientation data of an article at a second pick location and said second robotic manipulator adapted to respond to said second vision system to pick that article at the article'"'"'s position and orientation at said second pick location and place that article at a receptacle placement location of one of a plurality of receptacles at the second place location; and
wherein said first robotic manipulator is adapted to at least place an article at the first place location and said second robotic manipulator is adapted to at least pick that article substantially without conflict with said first robotic manipulator, such that said first and second robotic manipulators are operable at different speeds.
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Abstract
A method and system for picking articles from a collection of articles and arranging articles into placement locations, includes capturing an image with a first vision system from a collection of articles at a first pick location and determining coordinate data for at least some of the articles in the collection of articles. The coordinate data for an article in the collection of articles is provided to a first robotic manipulator. That article is picked from the collection of articles with the first robotic manipulator according to the coordinate data for that article and that article placed at a first place location. The position and orientation data of that article are obtained at a second pick location and provided along with a desired position and orientation of that article at a second place location to a second robotic manipulator. That article is picked with the second robotic manipulator using the position and orientation data of that article at the second pick location and that article is placed at the second place location at the desired position and orientation.
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26 Claims
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1. An article pick and put system, comprising:
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a first robotic system comprising a first vision system and a first robotic manipulator; a second robotic system comprising a second vision system and a second robotic manipulator; an article support at a first pick location and an article support at a second place location; said first vision system adapted to obtain coordinates of an article at said first pick location and said first robotic manipulator adapted to respond to the coordinates of that article to pick that article from said first pick location and place that article at a first place location; said second vision system adapted to obtain position and orientation data of an article at a second pick location and said second robotic manipulator adapted to respond to said second vision system to pick that article at the article'"'"'s position and orientation at said second pick location and place that article at a receptacle placement location of one of a plurality of receptacles at the second place location; and wherein said first robotic manipulator is adapted to at least place an article at the first place location and said second robotic manipulator is adapted to at least pick that article substantially without conflict with said first robotic manipulator, such that said first and second robotic manipulators are operable at different speeds. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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8. The system as claimed in 7 wherein said third vision system is adapted to sense at least one chosen from receptacle location, receptacle orientation, receptacle size, receptacle percent fill, and article position.
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16. A method of picking articles from a collection of articles and arranging the articles into receptacles at placement locations, said method comprising:
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capturing an image with a first vision system from a collection of articles at a first pick location and determining coordinate data with an image processor for at least some of the articles in the collection of articles; providing the coordinate data with a sequence controller for an article in the collection of articles to a first robotic manipulator; picking that article from the mixed collection of articles with said first robotic manipulator according to the coordinate data for that article; placing that article at a first place location by said first robotic manipulator; determining, with a second vision system and the image processor, the position and orientation data of that article as placed by the said first robotic manipulator and a receptacle placement location of one of the receptacles for that article; providing, with the sequence controller, the receptacle placement location data of that article to a second robotic manipulator; picking that article with said second robotic manipulator using the position and orientation data of that article as placed by said first robotic manipulator and as determined by the second vision system and the image processor; and placing that article at the receptacle placement location with said second robotic manipulator; wherein said picking of the article with said second robotic manipulator is substantially without conflict with said placing of that article at the first place location with said first robotic manipulator, wherein said first and second robotic manipulators are operable at different speeds. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23)
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24. An article pick and put system, comprising:
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a first robotic system comprising a first vision system and a first robotic manipulator; a second robotic system comprising a second vision system and a second robotic manipulator; an article support at a first pick location and an article support at a second place location; said first vision system adapted to obtain coordinates of an article at said first pick location and said first robotic manipulator adapted to respond to the coordinates of that article to pick that article from said first pick location and place that article at a first place location; said second vision system adapted to obtain position and orientation data of an article at a second pick location and said second robotic manipulator adapted to respond to said second vision system to pick that article at the article'"'"'s position and orientation at said second pick location and place that article at a placement location at the second place location; wherein said second robotic manipulator adapted to pick the article at the position and orientation of the article at said second pick location that is spaced from said first place location and including an accumulation conveyor adapted to convey articles from said first place location to said second pick location.
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25. An article pick and put system, comprising:
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a first robotic system comprising a first vision system and a first robotic manipulator; a second robotic system comprising a second vision system and a second robotic manipulator; an article support at a first pick location and an article support at a second place location; said first vision system adapted to obtain coordinates of an article at said first pick location and said first robotic manipulator adapted to respond to the coordinates of that article to pick that article from said first pick location and place that article at a first place location; said second vision system adapted to obtain position and orientation data of an article at a second pick location and said second robotic manipulator adapted to respond to said second vision system to pick that article at the article'"'"'s position and orientation at said second pick location and place that article at a placement location at the second place location; wherein said second robotic manipulator adapted to pick the article at the position and orientation of the article at said second pick location that is spaced from said first place location and including a conveyance device adapted to convey articles from said first place location to said second pick location; and a scanner at said conveyance device, said scanner adapted to capture additional data regarding each article being conveyed by said conveyance device, wherein said scanner comprises a scan tunnel that is adapted to scan multiple sides of an article to read an optical code on any side of an article.
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26. An article pick and put system, comprising:
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a first robotic system comprising a first vision system and a first robotic manipulator; a second robotic system comprising a second vision system and a second robotic manipulator; an article support at a first pick location and an article support at a second place location; said first vision system adapted to obtain coordinates of an article at said first pick location and said first robotic manipulator adapted to respond to the coordinates of that article to pick that article from said first pick location and place that article at a first place location; said second vision system adapted to obtain position and orientation data of an article at a second pick location and said second robotic manipulator adapted to respond to said second vision system to pick that article at the article'"'"'s position and orientation at said second pick location and place that article at a placement location at the second place location; wherein said second robotic manipulator adapted to pick the article at the position and orientation of the article at said second pick location that is spaced from said first place location and including a conveyance device adapted to convey articles from said first place location to said second pick location; and a second conveyance device that is adapted to convey a receptacle from said first pick location after said first robotic manipulator picks at least one article from that receptacle.
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Specification