irVision test stand

    We are trying to set up a vision test stand, i.e. setup up the camera and view it on a computer via Roboguide or other means without using robot controller at all. That way we can test out lighting colors/filters and figure out our camera heights(I know there are formulas for this). Anyone have any experience doing this? How do I connect the irVision Sony cam to the computer, and can I in fact use Roboguide to do this? I know we have a pendant here somewhere that you can connect to the computer via RS232 or similar, I don't really know what they used it for but I know we have it, so I was hoping there was a way to connect the cam as well. I have a 12V/24V power supply here to handle lighting, so I just need to hook up the camera.

    Any help would be greatly appreciated!

    The IrVision software is in the controller
    There's no place on your laptop to hook up the communication cable from the xc56

    Normally, you would connect your computer via ethernet to the controller.
    Then you would call the Fanuc html page and the software interpreter (cant find another word) for irvision would be loaded in your computer.

    As far as Roboguide, You can deal with pictures already taken but it will not work directly.

    Retired but still helping

    I do exactly that to create remote teach stations on my systems. You can use a Basler USB or ethernet camera, with the same resolution as the robot camera, that will plug into a PC. You then go through and set up the camera the same way you set up the real robot camera, although this is done through Roboguide.

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    I do exactly that to create remote teach stations on my systems. You can use a Basler USB or ethernet camera, with the same resolution as the robot camera, that will plug into a PC. You then go through and set up the camera the same way you set up the real robot camera, although this is done through Roboguide.

    You can use a live camera feed with Roboguide?

    Quote from mikeandersontx


    I do exactly that to create remote teach stations on my systems. You can use a Basler USB or ethernet camera, with the same resolution as the robot camera, that will plug into a PC. You then go through and set up the camera the same way you set up the real robot camera, although this is done through Roboguide.

    I am going to try that !!! :top:
    Thanks for the idea

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    You can use a live camera feed with Roboguide?

    Yes. I am currently running 100+ M-1iA robots that run off a single teach station. The teach station is an ethernet camera run into a PC that runs Roboguide. I use a little custom code to copy the vision process framework into the new vision file. I add the current image and any other options, then I export the new vision file.

    Quote from mikeandersontx

    Yes. I am currently running 100+ M-1iA robots that run off a single teach station. The teach station is an ethernet camera run into a PC that runs Roboguide. I use a little custom code to copy the vision process framework into the new vision file. I add the current image and any other options, then I export the new vision file.

    Can you elaborate a little bit on the details of how you do this. I just watched one of Fanuc's Friday Webinars on their cRc site about using vision in Roboguide and they were only using previously logged images, no live feed or showing any way to load in newer images even if you cant use a live feed. How are you connected and how do you access your images within RG? I want to create an image and be able to analyze it, and then if I want to, reposition the camera/lighting and then re-analyze the new image. I am a vision rookie so maybe im making this harder than it needs to be.

    Also I looked at Basler's site about their USB cameras, but I just looked through the paperwork that came with the Sony camera from Fanuc and it shows how to connect it to a PC so I will probably try that first. What kind of Ethernet cam are you using, and what was the cost?

    Lastly, if you don't mind, what are you guys doing with all those M1s?

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    Can you elaborate a little bit on the details of how you do this. I just watched one of Fanuc's Friday Webinars on their cRc site about using vision in Roboguide and they were only using previously logged images, no live feed or showing any way to load in newer images even if you cant use a live feed. How are you connected and how do you access your images within RG? I want to create an image and be able to analyze it, and then if I want to, reposition the camera/lighting and then re-analyze the new image. I am a vision rookie so maybe im making this harder than it needs to be.

    Also I looked at Basler's site about their USB cameras, but I just looked through the paperwork that came with the Sony camera from Fanuc and it shows how to connect it to a PC so I will probably try that first. What kind of Ethernet cam are you using, and what was the cost?

    Lastly, if you don't mind, what are you guys doing with all those M1s?

    I only have a minute to respond, so I will give you what I can from memory:
    I have an ethernet camera attached to a PC. The PC is running RG. You can configure the camera in the iRVision setup the same way you would with a real robot. You can still do image snaps with RG. You can then set up your vision tools and change the variables in your lighting/setup and re-run your vision tools.

    I use Basler acA1300-30gm and acA640-120gc. I pay approximately $200 per camera.

    We use these for high speed pick and place with GPM tools to verify only the correct parts are being picked. There is no room for error in these systems. There is a possibility that the wrong parts could be presented to the system through a human error. Unfortunately, I can't give you much more information about the system, but you will probably see the system in the news in the near future. The site that I am currently installing has well over 200 FANUC robots, 160 of them are M-1iA robots.

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