Feeding robot and control method therefor

Abstract

A feeding robot which is capable of drawing a glass panel for a liquid crystal display from a cassette without bringing it into collision with the cassette, and then feeding the drawn glass panel with a reduced error, and a method for controlling the same. Determination is made as to whether an object to be fed has been accurately aligned with a traveling axis of the feeding robot. A turned angle of the object relative to the traveling axis is calculated if the object has not been accurately aligned with the traveling axis. The robot is turned by the turned angle and then draws the object. While the robot moves to a target position, a correction value for the target position is calculated, and the target position is then corrected by the calculated correction value. The feeding robot control method is capable of aligning the glass panel with a hand of the feeding robot using sensors in the robot. The feeding robot is able to draw the glass panel from the cassette safely without bringing it into collision with the cassette and to lay the drawn glass panel on an outlet stage with a high degree of positional precision.

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