PICKING SYSTEM AND END EFFECTOR FOR ROBOT ARM

Title:

PICKING SYSTEM AND END EFFECTOR FOR ROBOT ARM

Document Type and Number:

WIPO Patent Application WO/2019/176158

Kind Code:

A1

Abstract:

This end effector is provided with: a gripping mechanism that is provided at an arm tip part of a robot arm for picking an article, and that grips the article in a releasable manner; and a detected part that is disposed on the boundary between the article and the gripping mechanism or in the vicinity of the boundary, and that is irradiated with incident light from a distance detector that detects the distance to an object on the basis of an optical property of reflected light with respect to the irradiated incident light. In the detected part, a detection value group which indicates a detection result of the distance to the detected part detected by the distance detector has a different optical property than a detection value group which indicates the distance to the article detected by the distance detector.

Inventors:

SEKIGUCHI KANA (JP)
SHIMOYAMA KENICHI (JP)

Application Number:

PCT/JP2018/040118

Publication Date:

September 19, 2019

Filing Date:

October 29, 2018

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Assignee:

TOSHIBA KK (JP)
TOSHIBA INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORP (JP)

International Classes:

B25J13/08; B25J19/02; G01B11/00; G01B11/24

Foreign References:

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