transfer station for transferring products between two lines of parallel transport through a series of robot

摘要

A transfer system (1) has two parallel transport lines (6,13) for randomly transporting products (2) and transporting compartments (3) to be filled, respectively; a vision system (5) determines the positions of the incoming products (2), and on the basis of the positions determined by the vision system (5), the transfer of the products (2) into the compartments (3) is carried out by at least two robots (4), which are provided with respective gripping members (15) and define respective working fields (16) which may reach the gripping members (15); the system (1) has, furthermore, a buffer (21), which is arranged in a boundary area between the two working fields (16) above the transport lines (6,13), at a height such as to let products (2) pass below, and has at least one place for a product (2) which can be reached by both robots (4).