Towards an Autonomous Wheelchair: Cognitive Aspects in Service Robotics

A device for conveying and separating articles which are moved, while in engagement with each other, by an input conveyor and are transferred by a periodically operating transfer member onto an output conveyor which operates in synchronism with the transfer member and which engages the articles during their conveying movement and conveys them with a speed which is greater than the speed of the input conveyor. The transfer member is composed of a first pusher which moves transverse to the conveying direction for transferring each item from the output end of the input conveyor onto the output conveyor, and a second pusher which is driven independently of the first pusher for holding back the item immediately following the item being transferred until the first pusher returns to its starting position.

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