Bin picker @ Food Tech Brainport, the Netherlands Components: Bin picker, sachets, inline A bin picker that can pick randomly ordered sachets of salt & pepper, sauce or sesame seeds and place them in e.g. salads or ready meals for supermarkets. The sachets can be picked at high speed randomly out of a bin. Technology…
Digital twin for simulation and optimisation @ Food Tech Brainport, the Netherlands Components: Cobot simulation and optimization, process optimisation With digital twin actions of a cobot in a process can be simulated. In this way, before ordering or placing a cobot or robot, via simulation the feasibility can be determined. Technology Provider: Qing
Cobot in cake decoration system @ Food Tech Brainport, the Netherlands Components: Cobot (Universal Robots) in custom made carrousel for cake processing A cobot performs various actions on decorating a cake/pie whipped cream, placing fruits, cutting the pie) and interacts with a carousel system that can hold up to 100 trays, each able to support…
Automated Guided Vehicles @ Food Tech Brainport, the Netherlands Components: AGV Demonstration how to use an AGV, scan the area of the AGV and plot its route, including driving options such as hold on obstacle or move around obstacle. Technology Provider: Probotics
Machine vision technology @ Food Tech Brainport, the Netherlands Components: Vision system, shape detection, seal inspection, machine vision The fingers can be assembled from two up to eight, or as many as is required. Gripper pressure can be adjusted by adjusting the pneumatics. Demonstrated is the ease of use, area of application and cleanability. Demonstration…
Soft grippers for cobot arm @ Food Tech Brainport, the Netherlands Components: Pneumatic demo model with two or more soft gripping fingers A soft gripper (of Soft Robotics), either fixed to a cobot arm or as a stand-alone is used to pick up various food produce. The fingers can be assembled from two up to…
ABB Flexpicker IRB 360 @ University of Lincoln, UK Components: IRB360 delta robot, hi-res vision system, conveyor, soft gripper, vacuum actuator This system demonstrates the possibility of high-speed and high-precision ingredients/products manipulation. It can be used for loading and unloading, packing, boxing operations.
STAUBLI HE robots (Humid environments) @ University of Lincoln, UK Components: Wide range of HE robots, hi-res vision system, conveyor, vacuum actuator, laser scanners Staubli produces a wide range of robots for usage in humid environments, so they are for use in high-risk food production areas. Safety can also be demonstrated by means of laser scanners and a safety-certified control system…
Soft Robotics gripper prototyping system @ University of Lincoln, UK Components: Rapid prototyping station to assemble and program soft grippers with multiple fingers configuration This system can be used to rapidly prototype soft grippers from both a mechanical and control point of view. Depending on the ingredient/product to be manipulated, the gripper can be assembled using a different number of fingers and…
ABB IRB 1200 with safe move @ University of Lincoln, UK Components: Standard 6dof robotic arm, soft gripper, pneumatic gripper, vacuum/pneumatic actuators, 3D camera, laser scanner This robot will be mainly used to demonstrate high-speed operations on food ingredients/products like ingredients loading and presentation and/or final packing/boxing. The robot will use 3D vision systems to grasp and manipulate ingredients (bin picking) and to load/present them for the following operation. Other uses of…
