Abstract: The 3D laser scanner is widely applied in industry robot vision system, but the calibration error of positional relationship between the scanner and the robot has important influence on the application of robot vision system. It is presented systematically how the scanning results are influenced by the robotic vision calibration position and orientation errors and how the workpiece positioning process is affected by the scanning result and then it is concluded that the position calibration of vision system is not necessary in the robot workpiece positioning system when there is no variation of robot scanning posture no matter whether the workpiece has posture variation or not. The validity of the theoretical analysis conclusion is verified by tests, thus providing the theoretical basis for explaining the influence of calibration error of vision system on the scanning result and for simplifying the calibration process of the vision system.

Key words: Calibration error, Industry robot, Scanning result, Vision system, Workpiece positioning