Pick & place

Mechanical control in production automation, robotic, appliances and many more application segments benefit from highest accuracy sensing solutions which enable autonomous sorting, mounting, detection and identification tasks: IQ-sensing provides precise feedback on presence or spatial distance to items and even report lightest physical contact with them. Position infomation provides exact mechanical position of robot joints, conveyors and other moving parts within these systems. Optical force sensing solutions consisting of analog front end and matching SFH 7050A optical front-ends combine proximity and highest precision mechanical force or deformation sensing for mechanical displacements. The sensors are ideally suited for solving any mechanical control challenge and even revolutionize solutions around contact or collision sensing. 

Object identification is typically done by visually analyzing the item’s shape, contour, color, size etc. using machine vision solutions. Complementing and often even better performing object identification is done by analyzing the item’s material characteristics: spectral sensors feedback details on the optical characteristics in terms of its spectral transmissivity, absorption or reflection behavior.