Patent ID: 8630737

Claim:
A taking out device for taking out an article one-by-one by using a robot with a hand having a gripping part for gripping the article, the hand being attached to a front end of an arm of the robot, the taking out device comprising: a vision sensor which detects a position and posture of each of a plurality of articles which are randomly located in a container and detects one of the plurality of articles as an article to be taken out, the container having an inside portion defined by a wall portion and an opened upper portion; a reference operation program which is previously taught against the article to be taken out, in which a command for the hand and a robot operation command including a series of teach points, for taking out the article to be taken out by means of the robot and the hand, are described; a correction part which corrects positional information and postural information at each teach point of the series of teach points in the reference operation program, based on information from the vision sensor; a storing part which previously stores interference region information corresponding to the wall portion of the container; and a posture adjusting part which adjusts the postural information corrected by the correcting part, based on the interference region information stored in the storing part, such that the robot or the hand does not interfere with the wall portion, wherein the reference operation program is described such that, by operating the robot, the hand is positioned at a first position and posture in which the gripping part of the hand faces a gripped portion of the article to be taken out located in inclined state and the gripping part contacts a part of the article to be taken out, then, the hand is positioned at a second position and posture in which the hand is moved to correct the posture of the article to be taken out while the gripping part contacts the article to be taken out and the posture of the article to be taken out relative to the gripping part is changed such that the article can be gripped, and then, the hand grips and takes out the grip command, wherein the posture adjusting part adjusts the postural information in relation to at least one teach point corresponding to the first position and posture, wherein the article has a hole portion such that the article can be gripped at an inner diameter portion thereof, and the griping part has at least three claws which enter the hole portion of the article and grip the article, and wherein an entering direction of the at least three claws into the hole portion of the article is determined such that at least two claws of the at least three claws are moved in advance of the remaining claw, and simultaneously enter the article.