PROCESSING SYSTEM AND PROCESSING METHOD

• US 20120277898A1
• Filed: 12/10/2010
• Published: 11/01/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 01/06/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Inventors: Kawai, Yasuhiro, Kaneyasu, Kensaku, Yamaashi, Kazuhiko, Murakawa, Toshihiro
• Application Number:
  US13/520,662
• Publication Number:
  US 20120277898A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/114
• CPC Class Codes: B25J 19/023 including video camera means
• CPC Class Codes: B25J 5/02 travelling along a guideway
• CPC Class Codes: B25J 9/0093 co-operating with conveyor means
• CPC Class Codes: B25J 9/1697 Vision controlled systems

Abstract

Disclosed are a processing system and a processing method such that the production cost in a workpiece processing line is reduced and that a workpiece is processed efficiently. A robot 11 has an arm 23 at the tip of which the processing machine 12 is installed, and a robot base 22 on which the arm 23 is installed. The robot base 22 is installed on a robot movement mechanism 14, and said robot movement mechanism 14 moves the robot 11. A robot control device 16 performs movement control of the arm 23, and also executes movement control on the robot movement mechanism 14. By way of movement control of the robot movement mechanism 14, the robot control device 16 executes control wherein the robot 11 is moved independently of the continuous conveyance of the workpiece 2 by the continuous conveying mechanism 20.

Claims

1. A processing system that performs predetermined processing on a workpiece that is continuously conveyed, comprising:

a continuous conveying mechanism that causes the workpiece to be continuously conveyed;

a processing device that performs a predetermined processing action on the workpiece;

a base to which the processing device is mounted;

a movement mechanism to which the base is mounted, and causing the base to move; and

a control device that executes, as movement control on the movement mechanism, control to cause the base to move independently from continuous conveyance of the workpiece by way of the continuous conveying mechanism.

2. A processing system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a first detection sensor that is disposed at the processing device, and at least detects a position of a processing target of the workpiece; and

a second detection sensor that is disposed to be separated from the processing device, and detects a position of either of the processing device or the first detection sensor,

wherein the control device further

obtains deviation of an absolute position of a leading end of the processing device relative to an absolute position of the processing target, using detection results of each of the first detection sensor and the second detection sensor, and

controls movement action of the processing device based on the deviation.

3. A processing method for performing predetermined processing on a workpiece that is continuously conveyed by way of a continuous conveying mechanism, comprising

a control device, which executes movement control of a base to which a processing device that processes the workpiece is mounted,

executing control to cause the base to move independently from continuous conveyance of the workpiece by the continuous conveying mechanism.

4. A processing method according to claim 3, wherein the control device further:

obtains deviation of an absolute position of a leading end of the processing device relative to an absolute position of a processing target of the workpiece, using a detection result of a first detection sensor that is disposed at the processing device and at least detects a position of the processing target, and

a detection result of a second detection sensor that is disposed to be separated from the processing device and detects a position of either the processing device or the first detection sensor; and

controls movement action of the processing device based on the deviation.