Optimized design of an ABB robotic palletizing station

Nowadays pallets (and then palletization) have become an essential tool for the various stages of the production and supply chain. The palletization process is typically automatized and can be realized in 2 ways: exploiting automatic machines (conventional palletizers) or robots (robotic palletizers). The latter option provides higher flexibility at the cost of lower operation speed. The aim of this thesis is to design and program an ABB robotic palletizing station trying to minimize as possible process time and space and meeting some predefined requirements, using the software ABB RobotStudio. The particularity of this project is that 3 different kinds of boxes, which come to the station with different probabilities, need to be subjected to some operations (drawing and writing) before to get palletized onto different pallets.