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AssigneeIllinois Tool Works Inc.
InventorsJustin Andrew Jeanes, Devin Gregory Staack
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A control system and method for a robotic palletizer. The control system and method include or are implemented by a home screen displaying a plurality of application icons. The applications each provide a quick access to control features and methods. The control system includes methods and components for planning and/or monitoring a product pallet configuration by the palletizer. Animation and/or other virtual depiction of the palletization is displayed through a graphical user interface for the palletizer. The animation and/or other virtual depiction can illustrate the conveyor palletization before or during the palletization and/or provide an augmented confirmation overlaying a video feed of a palletization of a plurality of products.
A method of planning or monitoring a product pallet configuration by a palletizer, the method comprising graphically animating a palletization of a plurality of packaged products through creating animated packaged products on a graphical user interface of a control device of the palletizer, and moving the animated packaged products into a position on an animation conveyor created and displayed on the graphical user interface to plan or program a pallet layer of the products for execution by the palletizer, wherein after the moving step the animating illustrates the palletization to be performed by the palletizer in corresponding real time as a pallet build progresses, wherein the animating is shown with a video feed of the pallet build performed by the palletizer.
A palletizer, comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.