Calibration method for robotic equipment and system implementing the method
AssigneeStarmatik Srl
InventorStefano Fava
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Abstract
A method for calibrating the components of robotic equipment includes positioning a laser pointer on a robot of the robotic equipment; determining the position of a zero point on the robot at the point where the laser sensor is positioned; positioning the robot so that the pointer can detect a plurality of points on a component the position and/or shape of which are/is to be acquired; determining a reference zero point of the component; determining the position of the zero point of the component with respect to the zero point of the robot, wherein the position is calculated by the robot. A system implementing the method is also disclosed.
Claims8
A method for calibrating components of robotic equipment, comprising the steps of:
- positioning a laser pointer on a robot in the robotic equipment, wherein said robot is an anthropomorphic robot with six or more axes;
- determining a position of a zero point on said robot at a point where said laser pointer is positioned;
- storing said zero point position in a central computer;
- positioning the robot so that said laser pointer can detect a plurality of points on a component whose position and/or shape are/is to be acquired;
- determining the position of each of said plurality of points in relation to said zero point of the robot;
- transmitting the positions of said detected points of the component to said central computer;
- determining a reference zero point of said component, calculated by said central computer;
- transmitting a position of said reference zero point of the component to the robot;
- determining the position of said reference zero point of the component with respect to said zero point of the robot, wherein said position is calculated by the robot, and
- saving said position of said reference zero point of the component in a memory of the robot.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.