Acquire Image Tool Properties You can use the Instances tab on the runtime display to view instances associated with a specific hardware source. Process Strategy: Data Models The process strategy is the object that is responsible for associating instances supplied by the hardware sources with robots that can process those instances. As an example, here is a diagram showing the data flow for the vision-located belt part: When the application runs, a V+ belt control program is launched on the robot controller. The belt control program monitors for conveyor motion and input latchs. As the conveyor advances, it will send requests to the belt handler to take a picture with the camera.
Additionally, the belt control program sends the latch information to the belt handler as they are detected. The belt handler will take the instances located by a camera vision operation and associate it with latches received from the controller. Once it identifies instances for processing, it adds it to the list of parts that are available. The allocation algorithm is notified when instances are made available for any hardware source. At that point, it will locate the farthest upstream robot that can process the instance. It will allocate that instance to that robot. This diagram shows the data flow for how RobotStation queues are managed: ACE Reference Guide, 18317-000 Rev A Page 672