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Order-picking industrial robot

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2009

H.-J. Warnecke
Affiliation:
Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering & Automation, Postfach 800469, Nobelstrasse 12, D-7000 Stuttgart 80, West Germany (F.R.G.)
K. Baumeister
Affiliation:
Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering & Automation, Postfach 800469, Nobelstrasse 12, D-7000 Stuttgart 80, West Germany (F.R.G.)

Summary

Order-picking, i.e. arranging work-pieces of different types on a pallet, which is nowadays often carried out manually, will in future be more and more automated for economic reasons. The industrial robot in combination with an intelligent gripper, a supporting palletizing and order-picking software and a suitably designed periphery will permit fully automated order-picking. The Fraunhofer-Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation (F.R.G.) has developed such a system which takes advantage of the arrangement of the work-pieces in the compartment stack and simultaneously grips the work-pieces that are then arranged in a pattern on a pallet.

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Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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