Hand-eye calibration

What is hand-eye calibration?

The purpose of hand-eye calibration is to transform the detected part X,Y coordinates from the vision frame to the robot frame. This allows the robot to receive part coordinates directly in its own frame upon request. Hand-eye calibration is performed by pairing four points detected by the vision system with their four corresponding robot positions.

Access the hand-eye calibration wizard

The hand-eye calibration is the third step of the onboarding tool (Fig. 13). From the HOME page, simply click on START HAND-EYE CALIBRATION to open the wizard.

../_images/onboarding_step_3_ongoing.png — Fig. 16 HOME page onboarding - Step 3 - Hand-Eye Calibration

You can also access it from the CONFIGURATION page. Click on CONFIGURATION, then on Robot and finally on START HAND-EYE CALIBRATION WIZARD.

Perform hand-eye calibration

Follow the wizard steps to perform the hand-eye calibration.

Note

Further information on hand-eye calibration can be found in the chapter Hand-eye calibration wizard.

If you go back to the HOME page, you will notice that the last step is also complete (Fig. 17) and the onboarding stepper has disappeared.

../_images/onboarding_step_3_complete.png — Fig. 17 HOME page - Onboarding complete

You are now ready to get your first part position! Move on to the next step.