Chapter 1 Description
Robotic System and Barcode Scanner
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Figure 10 FC I/O Fan Blade
Robotic System and Barcode Scanner
The robotic system identifies and moves the cartridges between the
storage slots, tape drives, and the I/E station. The robotic arm (picker)
has picker fingers that enable it to grab tape cartridges and move them
into positions along X, Y, and Z motion coordinates. The robotic system
and the barcode scanner work together to identify the locations of
resources within the library.
Each tape cartridge must contain a barcode that the barcode scanner
reads during the inventory process. During the inventory process, the
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