ACE Sight Special Tools ACE Sight Special Tools ACE Sight Sequences ACE Sight Sequences let you see the order and dependency of vision tools that will be executed, and give V+ and MicroV+ a means for retrieving results from vision tools. The ACE Sight Sequence is an object in the ACE Workspace Explorer. See "ACE Sight Sequence" Communication Tool The Communication Tool is a tool for conveyor tracking applications. The purpose of the Com- munication Tool is to provide instructions to the controller for handling parts that must be picked or manipulated by a robot. The Communication Tool processes the input instances, typically from an Overlap Tool, by applying region-of-interest parameters.
It acts as a filter: l Instances that are passed by the tool are sent to the controller queue. l Instances that are not output to the controller, because they are outside the region of interest, or because the queue is full, are rejected. These instances are passed to the next tool in the sequence. See "Communication Tool". Overlap Tool The purpose of the Overlap Tool is to make sure that parts moving on a conveyor belt are recognized only once. Because a part found by an input tool may be present in multiple images acquired by the cam- era, the Overlap Tool is needed to ensure that the robot is not instructed to pick up or process the same part more than once. See "Overlap Tool".
Gripper Offset Tool The Gripper Offset Tool defines where on the part a robot can pick up a part, giving the rela- tionship between the pick point, the part model, and the robot flange center. See "Gripper Offset". Related Topics Communication Tool Communication Tool Configuration Overlap Tool ACEUser's Guide, 3.6.x, 18316-000 Rev A Page 607