Patent ID: 8606400
Filing Date: 2013-12-10
Classification: B25J,G05B,Y02P

Abstract:
1. A robot system comprising: a conveying device that conveys workpieces; a plurality of robots that performs a working operation on the workpieces conveyed by the conveying device; an image capturing device that is placed at an upper stream side of the conveying device than the plurality of robots to capture a conveying path of the conveying device; a workpiece detecting device that detects the workpieces on the conveying path on the basis of an image captured by the image capturing device; and a control device that controls operations of the plurality of robots, and the control device including: wherein the control device instructs, for each of divided areas obtained by dividing an image area of the image, the robot corresponding to the divided area to perform the holding operation on the workpieces belonging to the divided area, and wherein the control device calculates a degree of bias by which a number of the workpieces are biased to one side on the conveying path and changes sizes of the divided areas in accordance with the calculated degree of bias.