Robofish-a new robot system for handling fresh cod

Author

Buckingham, R.O. ; Davey, P.G. ; Arnarson, H. ; Jespersen, C.

Author_Institution

AMARC, Bristol Univ., UK

Volume

2

fYear

1996

fDate

14-17 Oct 1996

Firstpage

1606

Abstract

This paper describes work conducted under a European Commission ESPRIT project entitled Intelligent Sensor Controlled Robots for Fast Integrated Handling of Fresh Fish-also called Robofish. The aim of the project was to design and build a robot that was generally suitable for the food environment and specifically to meet the exacting requirements of grasping 1-6 kg white fish from a moving conveyor and transferring the grasped fish to a deheading machine such as to maximise yield, at a rate of one fish every two seconds. The paper describes this process and focuses on the novel elements of the design of the manipulator, the end-effector and the sensors. The system has now been tested extensively in an Icelandic fish factory

Keywords

food processing industry; industrial manipulators; manipulators; materials handling; research initiatives; robot vision; European Commission ESPRIT project; Icelandic fish factory; Intelligent Sensor Controlled Robots for Fast Integrated Handling of Fresh Fish; Robofish; deheading machine; end-effector; food environment; fresh cod; grasping; manipulator; moving conveyor; Food industry; Intelligent robots; Intelligent sensors; Machine intelligence; Magnetic heads; Marine animals; Robot sensing systems; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Shape; Skeleton;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1996., IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

ISSN

1062-922X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3280-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSMC.1996.571394

Filename

571394