Robotic device and method for setting up at least one bowling pin
AssigneePin Marketing Sl
InventorSven Hohnecker
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Abstract
An appliance for setting up at least one bowling pin. The appliance includes an object recognition device for detecting the bowling pin and an orientation of the bowling pin, wherein the orientation of the bowling pin encompasses a vertical orientation and a horizontal orientation of the bowling pin, at least one robot arm which is designed for gripping and holding the bowling pin and for setting up the bowling pin onto a predefined desired position and a control unit which is designed to evaluate data of the object recognition device and to activate the robot arm in dependence on the predefined desired position of the bowling pin and/or on the detected orientation of the bowling pin.
Claims20
An appliance for setting up at least one bowling pin, comprising:
- an object recognition device detecting the at least one bowling pin and an orientation of the at least one bowling pin, wherein the orientation of the at least one bowling pin encompasses a vertical orientation and a horizontal orientation of the at least one bowling pin,
- a robot arm gripping and holding the at least one bowling pin and setting up the at least one bowling pin onto a predefined desired position,
- a control unit evaluating data and/or signals from the object recognition device and activating the robot arm in dependence on the predefined desired position of the at least one bowling pin and/or on the detected orientation of the at least one bowling pin,
- the object recognition device detecting a position of the at least one bowling pin and the control unit activating the robot arm in dependence on the detected position of the at least one bowling pin, wherein the detected position includes an actual position which is horizontally displaced with respect to the predefined desired position,
- the control unit activating the robot arm such that when a first number of the bowling pins has the horizontal orientation detected by the object recognition device, all bowling pins including the first number of the bowling pins in the horizontal orientation are moved and a second number of vertically orientated bowling pins are moved into the horizontal orientation, and the robot arm only grips the second number of bowling pins and returns the second number of bowling pins up into the actual position horizontally displaced with respect to the predefined desired position and returned into the vertical orientation, and
- a pusher controlled by the control unit, the pusher pushing all of the bowling pins into the pit, including pushing the first number of the bowling pins in the horizontal orientation into the pit and pushing the second number of vertically orientated bowling pins into the horizontal orientation and into the pit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.