Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : June 08, 2016 - June 11, 2016
We have been developing a robot which works in cooperation with workers in the automobile bumper assembly line, named B-PaDY. This robot is not directly involved in the assembly task but does non-essential task for workers. In assembly line, AGV (Automatic Guided Vehicle) brings bumper and B-PaDY needs to grasp it to supply workers for reduction of burden. However, bumper is not always in the same position because of low accuracy of AGV. In this paper, we propose a method using camera to detect bumper based on feature matching and template matching. Moreover, after bumper detected, B-PaDY automatically correct the position and grasp it robustly.
