Research on a Weighing System Capable of Adjusting the Weight of Linear-shaped Foods in Small Quantities with High Accuracy Simulation of Productivity Improvement Effects by Introduction of Chobit Hand

Abstract

In food factories, serving is still done manually by people in many cases. To solve the problem of quantitative serving, which is one of the challenges in robot operation, we developed a Chobit Hand that can precisely grasp only one strand of spaghetti. In this paper, we simulated whether installing the Chobit Hand on a multihead weigher would increase the efficiency of the weigher. As a result, the number of combinations could be increased by more than 1 set by replacing some of the existing hands with the Chobit Hand. It was also found that the introduction of the Chobit Hand reduces the variation in food product weight, allowing the producer to reduce the cost of food.