Robotic Device for Rod-Like Elements Using Adaptive Label Feedback
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing robotic devices for inserting or removing rod-like elements, such as smoking bars, into or from storage frames in sausage production lines face challenges with varying storage frame sizes and damage, leading to potential product damage and high repair costs, limiting the use to only one specific type of storage frame.
Innovation Solution
A method and system utilizing a machine-readable label on the storage frame to provide geometrical and product information, allowing the robotic device to adjust its movements accordingly, enabling the use of different standard and individually adapted storage frames, and ensuring correct insertion and removal without damage.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If a robotic device is used for inserting or removing rod-like elements into or from storage frames, then automation and productivity are improved, but the device cannot adapt to varying storage frame sizes and conditions, leading to damage and limited versatility
Solution Approach 1:
The robotic device incorporates adjustable end effectors and movable components that can dynamically adapt their position and configuration based on the detected storage frame dimensions and conditions, allowing the same device to handle various frame sizes and states without damage
Solution Approach 2:
Sensors and detection devices provide real-time feedback about storage frame size, position, and condition to the control system, which automatically adjusts the robotic device's insertion/removal parameters to prevent damage and ensure compatibility with the specific frame being serviced
2Reliability
If the robotic device is designed for one specific type of storage frame, then reliability and precision are improved, but adaptability to different frame types deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The robotic device is designed with universal end effectors and adjustable mechanisms that can accommodate multiple storage frame types and configurations, allowing a single device to perform reliable insertion and removal operations across different frame specifications without requiring dedicated hardware for each frame type
3Ease of repair
If storage frames are individually adapted or repaired, then adaptability and ease of repair are improved, but the robotic device's ability to handle them deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
Detection devices scan and identify the specific configuration of individually adapted or repaired storage frames, providing feedback to the control system that automatically adjusts the robotic device's operational parameters to ensure safe and effective handling of the modified frame structure
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AI summary
The present invention relates to a method and a system for controlling a robotic device for inserting or removing rod-like elements into or from a storage frame, the rod-like elements, like smoking bars, serving for storing products, like sausages, each having a sausage-shaped body and a loop for a pendulously storage of the products. The method comprises the steps of moving the storage frame into the operating range of the robotic device, picking up a rod-like element on which a number of sausage like products are hung up by the robotic device, and inserting or removing the rod-like element into or from the storage frame by the robotic device. Moreover, there is provided a storage frame with at least a machine readable label from which information regarding the storage device are read out from the machine readable label, which is attached to the storage device, at least before the storage frame is moved into the operating range of the robotic device. Said information are sent to the control unit of the robotic device for controlling the movement of the robotic device while inserting or removing rod-like elements into or from the storage frame.