Kazunori Ban

A Kinematic Calibration Method for Industrial Robots Using Autonomous Visual Measurement

Several new methods have been developed to achieve practical accuracy for offline programming of robots and its applicability to the real world. In this paper, a new kinematic calibration method is proposed to automatically improve absolute positioning accuracy of robots. Key points of the method include autonomous measurement and the automatic generation of measuring poses. A new visual feedback motion control method of the robot is proposed to achieve accurate measurement. An algorithm is also proposed to improve the condition of measuring poses automatically. The effectiveness of the proposed methods and algorithm was investigated through experiments with actual robots.

Autonomous Visual Measurement for Accurate Setting of Workpieces in Robotic Cells

This paper introduces a new method of adapting the virtual world of an offline programming model to an actual robotic cell by attaching a CCD camera to the robot. This method requires no specific camera attachment location or optical camera calibration. Furthermore, there is no operational requirement for setting robotic camera location. Robot motion is autonomously generated to identify the camera view line. The view line is adjusted to pass through the designated target point, utilizing visual feedback motion control. This method calibrates reference points between the virtual world of an offline model to an actual robotic cell.