A Kinematic Calibration Method for Industrial Robots Using Autonomous Visual Measurement

Several new methods have been developed to achieve practical accuracy for offline programming of robots and its applicability to the real world. In this paper, a new kinematic calibration method is proposed to automatically improve absolute positioning accuracy of robots. Key points of the method include autonomous measurement and the automatic generation of measuring poses. A new visual feedback motion control method of the robot is proposed to achieve accurate measurement. An algorithm is also proposed to improve the condition of measuring poses automatically. The effectiveness of the proposed methods and algorithm was investigated through experiments with actual robots.