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Robot system and method for removing sticks and/or foreign elements from conveyor belts

  • US 20070169230A1
  • Filed: 11/13/2006
  • Published: 07/19/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/10/2005
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A robot system for the removal of sticks and/or foreign elements from the conveyor belts, comprising an anthropomorphous robotic arm of at least 5 degrees of freedom, one control, communication and programming unit, one gripper adapter, one pneumatic gripper, its fingers, one pneumatic gripper driving system, one electric supply system, one container to deposit the sticks and/or foreign elements, one vision system provided with cameras and one logic processing unit wherein the anthropomorphous robotic arm of at least 5 degrees of freedom is provided with a gripping mechanism which allows in a sequential and programmed way to take, manipulate and release the sticks from a conveyor belt, and moves them through a defined path, to a container which is next to the system.

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