Machine vision solutions for effective material handling applicationsRTS Cheos specialises in robotic and machine vision integration. Dedicated to providing the optimum solution utilising the most advanced technology, the company develops high quality systems and solutions for a wide range of industrial applications. Integrating robust, commercially available hardware with proprietary Pi-Vision and Pi-Control software packages RTS Cheos boasts an extensive blue chip client base spanning three Continents. RTS Cheos is a member of the Pan-European RTS Group. With operating facilities in Finland, England and France, the Group specialises in high technology automation solutions for production and industrial automation, milling and grinding robotics, laboratory automation and nuclear engineering. RTS Cheos - The ultimate partner for flexible material handling solutions One product provided by RTS
Cheos is Pi-Vision PP Ð a machine vision system utilised throughout
industry for a wide range of material handling applications. Automatically
determining, the location, orientation and scale of the target, the system
is suitable for an almost infinite number of picking applications and can
even be utilised in situations where components overlap. Provided with
an integrated ethernet connection, the system can operate in high speed
production environments where cycle times can be less than 1 second. The
major benefits of Pi-Vision PP are it´s speed and flexibility - the
production process can be made more effective through the integration of
this sophisticated, yet cost-effective system.
 The Pi-Vision PP software package includes: an integrated robot interface suitable for most common robot controllers, and a selection of sample robot programs. The start-up time for each application is very short and all necessary hardware components including the PC and frame grabber are provided, installed in a compact housing. Application example - picking parts from a high-speed conveyor An ABB Flexpicker robot equipped
with conveyor tracking is guided by Pi-Vision PP to pick pieces of cheese
from a conveyor. Imaging is triggered using sensor information. The vision
system measures the position and orientation of the pieces of cheese on
the conveyor and transfers this information to the robot via an ethernet
connection. Simultaneously the robot traces the parts using an encoder
connected to the conveyor. The conveyor moves at a speed of 300 mm/s and
cycle-time of the robot is 1.2 s. The system has two similar picking stations
connected to one vision system.
Pi-Vision PP can be used in four different
types of material handling application.
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