An approach to the automation of the assembly of flexible belt-shaped objects

Hirokazu Osaki Department of Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University, Tsushima-naka 3-1-1, Okayama city, Okayama 700-8530, Japan

Satoshi Miyazaki Department of Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University, Tsushima-naka 3-1-1, Okayama city, Okayama 700-8530, Japan

Yasuhiro Kajihara Department of Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University, Tsushima-naka 3-1-1, Okayama city, Okayama 700-8530, Japan

Yoshiomi Munesawa Department of Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University, Tsushima-naka 3-1-1, Okayama city, Okayama 700-8530, Japan

Hiromitsu Uchiyama West Japan Railway Company, Japan

Abstract

A robot system was developed for the assembly of flexible belt-shaped objects, and the assembly procedures employed by workers in using it were analysed. A multi-fingered hand was developed to hold the objects at several points, and to move them into the proper position for attachment to a part. In addition, an image processing method that can recognize the gripping positions on source objects and conditions after the source objects are attached is proposed.

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