Assembly station for vehicle body door assembly

A vehicle body assembly station for use in a vehicle assembly line, the vehicle body assembly station comprising:

• an assembly station that receives a vehicle body having an associated pair of vertically spaced vehicle body hinge members to mount a door that has an associated pair of vertically spaced hinge members each of which hinge members has a pivot axis, each hinge member of one of the pair of hinge members having a shaft defining a hole through which its associated pivot axis extends, and each hinge member of the other pair of hinge members having a pin through which its pivot axis extends;
• a robot operable to move the door to an initial mounting position adjacent a door opening of the vehicle body;
• a sensing assembly to determine whether the door hinge members are properly positioned longitudinally along a vehicle X axis, laterally along a vehicle Y axis and vertically along a vehicle Z axis and are also properly angularly oriented for roll i about the X axis, pitch j about the Y axis and yaw k about the Z axis for respective assembly of the pair of door hinge members to the pair of vehicle body hinge members;
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• a controller programmed to operate the robot in cooperation with the sensing assembly to provide any necessary further positioning of the door to position the door hinge members with respect to the vehicle body hinge members so the pivot axes of all of the hinge members are aligned with each other, and the controller programmed to then operate the robot to move the door relative to the vehicle body for insertion of the pins into the holes of the shafts to mount the door on the vehicle body for pivotal movement between open and closed positions with respect to the door opening.