A 30 parts/min robot cell — reach/payload selection, a worked vacuum-gripper gripping-force calculation, machine vision defect inspection, and an ISO 13855 light-curtain distance calculation for the safety system.
The project brief: a robotic work cell that picks 0.25 kg molded parts off an indexing conveyor, inspects each one with machine vision for orientation and surface defects, and sorts the result — good parts into a shipping tray, defects to a reject chute — at 30 parts/min. Unlike this program's baseline conveyor project, the vision result here actually changes which physical path each part takes, making this the program's decision-branching robotics-and-vision integration case study.
This module walks the whole cell the way a real robotics integrator would: reach and payload sizing against real dynamic-load margin, a worked cycle-time budget with real slack built in, a worked vacuum-cup gripping-force calculation with single-cup redundancy, and a light-curtain mounting distance calculated from ISO 13855 rather than assumed. The full worked numbers, complete bill of materials, and finished design reasoning are part of the unlocked module below.