Geometric Trap Design for Automatic Part Feeders

Geometric algorithms have been applied successfully to solve or give insight into problems in robotic manipulation. In this paper, we present a framework to filter polygonal parts on a track. The filter consists of a polygonal hole in the track; we refer to the filters as traps.

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