Robot Pick and Place

[makenna_a]

[ FlexSim 23.1.0 ]

Is there a way for the robots to pick items off of a conveyor as the items move down the line? Additionally, is there a way to have the robot pick multiple items from the moving line before dropping them all off into a Queue? Thanks

[makenna_a]

I would like to add that there are many robots picking from the same conveyor, and not from the end of the conveyor, but from random points on the conveyor.

[joerg_vogel_HsH]

@Makenna A , in reality you need a program that plans which items are in distance to a robot to pick them from a conveyor by sensors. Please read in manual about exit transfers, side transfers, prefetching items. If those concepts don’t apply to your work, then you can still copy methods of a robot program to FlexSim yourself.

[FelixMoehlmann · Accepted solution]

In principle this can be done with a simple exit transfer at the side of the conveyor connected to a robot arm. Using a robot arm isn't any different from using any other task executer at a basic level.

If another item enters the area next to the transfer before the robot starts to unload the items it has currently grabbed and it still has capacity it will pick up the new item as well before unloading.

In the properties of the exit transfer you can control whether items stop at the end of the transfer whether the robot will not try to pick up items if it calculates that it won't reach them in time.

PickupFromConveyor.fsm

[Jeanette_Fullmer]

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