The Simulation Design of Robot Automatic Sorting and Palletizing Workstation Based on RobotStudio

Abstract

Taking the IRB460 robot as the research object, This paper builds an industrial robot virtual workstation for automatic sorting and palletizing in one-in-two-out mode simulated by the RobotStudio software. The conveyor chain transports the packaged materials to its end, and a Cognex camera is installed at the end to detect the color and position information of the packaged materials. Then the robot grabs the material according to the feedback information from the camera. It stacks the red materials to the left side on the pallet, the green materials to the right side on the pallet. This paper creates a workstation model in SolidWorks, and builds a Smart component with dynamic properties in RobotStudio. Then adds I/O signals, debugs and optimizes the workstation system, and analyzes the energy consumption during robot operations. The simulation results show that the robot can accurately grasp materials and sort and stack materials of different colors, which can shorten the design cycle and reduce the costs. It provides a theoretical reference for the construction of actual sorting and stacking workstations.