Material handling system and method
AssigneeJSC-Echigo Pte Ltd
InventorJunfeng DONG
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Abstract
A material handling system comprising: a platform for receiving a plurality of articles; a plurality of sorting bins, each bin in corresponding to an article type; an object recognition system for identifying an article on the platform and categorizing said article by specific article type; said 3D object recognition system including a 3D detector for detecting said article and a database containing data on characteristics of article types; an article engagement assembly for engaging and delivering said article to said corresponding sorting bin; wherein the object recognition system is arranged to identify the article based upon the data within said database and instructs the article engagement assembly to engage and place the article in said sorting bin.
Claims18
A material handling system comprising:
- a platform for receiving a plurality of articles;
- a plurality of sorting bins, each bin in corresponding to an article type;
- an object recognition system for identifying the article on the platform and categorizing said article by specific article type;
- said 3D object recognition system including a 3D detector for detecting said article and a database containing data on characteristics of article types;
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- an article engagement assembly for engaging and delivering said article to said corresponding sorting bin;
- wherein the object recognition system is arranged to identify the article based upon the data within said database and instructs the article engagement assembly to engage and place the article in said sorting bin.
A method for identifying and sorting an article, said method comprising the steps of:
- detecting the presence of the article by a 3D detector;
- comparing detected article with data contained in a database;
- locating the position and orientation of the article from the 3D image and transformed such information into robot coordinate frame;
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- categorizing said article as a specific article type based upon said comparison.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.