Visual Pick and Place

Suggested by Brian Jones <bdj23@cam.ac.uk>

We have a robot that picks up and places components when assembling circuit boards https://youtu.be/t__ybwOufyg. It has top and bottom cameras which are used for basic placement tasks like finding holes in component tapes. There are many more tasks it could do - such as reading printed labels on parts, identifying orientations and reading the writing on components, or informing the user they made a mistake. Ideally a user would export their parts list from CAD software, print sticky labels for each part, and the vision system would identify the parts, their orientation and automatically configure the machine.