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LODI, Italy – 23 March, 2011
ImagingLab, an Italian vision and robotics integration company, today announced three new industrial robotics-focused graphical libraries for National Instruments LabVIEW graphical system design software. The libraries incorporate the robot programming architectures from leading industrial robots from Denso, Mitsubishi and Kuka into a single programming environment for robot control, machine vision and measurements.
This library from ImagingLab communicates directly with Denso controllers to command and control Denso robotic arms through NI LabVIEW graphical software. The new library is an easy-to-use collection of graphical functions that provide the ability to use a single software environment to control and integrate every aspect of a machine, from part handling and robot control to advanced measurements and machine vision. Due to the ease of use of LabVIEW, engineers who normally would not use industrial robotics because of lack of specialized programming experience now can easily integrate them into their applications to automate laboratories, precisely assemble components and test complex parts.
Similar to the ImagingLab Robotics Library for Denso, the ImagingLab Robotics Library for Mitsubishi provides tools to directly control Mitsubishi robots over Ethernet and serial. The library is specifically optimized for use with LabVIEW, which helps engineers and scientists to implement all aspects of a robotics system, including machine vision, without the need for complex robotics programming expertise. The library increases productivity and performance in automated test, research and manufacturing applications, which helps reduce cost and shorten development time.
The latest addition to the ImagingLabs robotics library platform covers Kuka robots, fully recognizing the importance of a big player in robotics like Kuka, with a wide range of robot models covering many industrial applications. The first successful installation, using LabVIEW to integrate vision and robotics, has been recently released for a wood furniture painting line, using a KR30L16 robot. A 3D vision system detects the part geometry, including that of new parts, and the vision software automatically generates a path for the robot painting trajectories. Every aspect of the application is programmed using LabVIEW.
Readers can purchase the libraries through the National Instruments LabVIEW Tools Network
National Instruments is transforming the way engineers and scientists design, prototype and deploy systems for measurement, automation and embedded applications. NI empowers customers with off-the-shelf software such as NI LabVIEW and modular cost-effective hardware, and sells to a broad base of more than 30,000 different companies worldwide, with no one customer representing more than 4 percent of revenue and no one industry representing more than 15 percent of revenue. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, NI has more than 5,200 employees and direct operations in more than 40 countries. For the past 11 years, FORTUNE magazine has named NI one of the 100 best companies to work for in America.
ImagingLab is a small hi-tech company with a mission to offer its know-how to system integrators, machine builders and end-users with the need to adopt innovative technologies in the field of machine vision and robotics, to minimize their investments and shorten their learning curve. The company has a solid academic background, wide system integration experience and a deep knowledge of imaging tools and software. ImagingLab has successfully deployed integrated vision and robotics solutions into many different industrial applications such as flexible manufacturing and automated assembly, pharmaceutical and cosmetic packaging, automated testing in microelectronics, tire manufacturing and high-energy physics. ImagingLab is also actively pursuing the adoption of robust 3D machine vision techniques to complement and extend its offering of 2D vision for robotics. For more information, e-mail info@imaginglab.it.
