Vision Assisted Disassembly Using a Dexterous Hand-Arm-System: An Example and Experimental Results

Abstract Future applications in automation of non-destructive disassembly processes - necessary and important for re-use of components - require highly sensorized and dexterous robot systems. The main elements of the presented system are a disassembly sequence planner using special elementary disassembly operations, a redundant hand-arm-system with fifteen degrees of freedom supplied by a six-axes robot and a three-fingered gripper, and a vision system used for offline grasp and motion planning as well as for online supervision. Besides a description of the overall system structure and explanation of the underlying ideas for special disassembly operations, the presentation of first results and experiences from disassembling some parts of a video camera recorder will be one of the centred points to be discussed.

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