A novel closed loop track based multi‐head robot has been developed to increase the material handing throughput. This robot allows waves of autonomous robot heads to move materials in to the working path by eliminating the traditional return path. Two distributed control architectures were...

Purpose – Current single head pick and place robots have reached their practical limit for throughput rates due to impractical speeds and acceleration, which often damage or lose the product being transferred. The purpose of this paper is to present a new system which uses 2 XY motion slides...