Posts by Chall234

We will see if we have additional issues after we replace this bracket on Monday. If so, this might be the next step for sure. Thanks for your input.

If your company has a service agreement with Fanuc they may be able to send a field tech. out to give you a hand, or potentially even give you some guidance over the phone.

The cameras are mounted on the robots. I will see if adding an offset in certain directions helps with the glare at all.

We had discussed in the past about building an awning of sorts over the line where the robot sits, I wonder if this might still be a good idea. We have our own weld shop so it may even be pretty cheap to do with just some angle iron and flat stock..

The film covers the entire camera lens.

I will try shooting with the ring light off, I can't, unfortunately, turn the overhead lights off, because safety will have a fit.

I appreciate the ideas.

I do know part of our issue is the bracket that holds the camera is currently bent and seeing the bars at a slight angle, but we are getting ready to swap that out today actually. Which should help.

Right now, there is some LED overhead lighting about 50 feet overhead, no skylights. We do use a ring light that shines a red light when it goes to view the bar.

The settings are the same for both robots, and have been worked on by the same person.

Im not sure if the aperture has been adjusted or just the focus, I will have to check with the guy that typically adjusts the robots.

Both robots operate the exact same, angles, approach, light, etc, the only difference is the one we have issues with has a polarizing film on it, which seems to help some, but not completely.

Hello all,

Fairly new to FANUC robots and IR Vision as a whole.

Two of our robots are used to deburr the edges of round steel bars, typically this works fairly well. However, we seem to always have issues with one of them not being able to see the end of the bar because it is too shiny and glares when it tries to look at it. We have tried painting the ends of the bars, we have tried putting polarizing film over the lens. Nothing seems to work out just right, and it's only the one robot. Does anyone have any suggestions on what might be causing this? Maybe its not actually the glare?

Any tips are greatly appreciated.