Matlab and ABB IRB 140

jsEng

I'm working on a project at school, it consist of a camera connected to matlab to recognize objects running on a conveyor belt, this has been already finished.



The next step is to get matlab to send the position and angle of the object to the robot on the conveyor belt, and that's where the headache appears.



The values sent would be x,y coordinates and the angle of the object.



Anyone have any ideas?



-JS, Bergen University College, Automation.

John Wiberg

What type of robot is it? Year model? What robot options do you have?

What ABB softwares does your school have?

Normally I'd say for a school project you don't have the time to create this type of communication on your own, unless someone at your school has done a similar solution before and already have the software/know-how. What is the input of the project and how does your teacher propose you solve it?

If matlab is what I think it is you don't have any easy interface solutions to make an application that talks both to the robots and to matlab.

mrshael

Yeah -I would instead use a C-style language along with Socket Messaging (if you have that option installed on your robot)