Systems and methods for handling track materials
AssigneeB & B Metals, Inc.
InventorCoty T. Coots
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Abstract
A system and method of handling track materials includes identifying, using a vision sensor, a track material having a character, determining, using a trained neural network, whether the character of the track material, for a rail assembly operation, satisfies an operation threshold, and in response to determining whether the character satisfies the operation threshold, placing, using a robotic arm, the track material at a target location.
Claims20
A method of handling track materials comprising:
- identifying, using a vision sensor, a track material having a character;
- determining, using a trained neural network, whether the character of the track material, for a rail assembly operation, satisfies an operation threshold;
- and
- in response to determining whether the character satisfies the operation threshold:
- placing, using a robotic arm, the track material at a target location.
A system for handling track materials comprising:
- a robotic arm operable to manipulate a track material at a location;
- a vision sensor associated with the robotic arm;
- and
- a controller comprising a trained neural network;
- wherein:
- the vision sensor is configured to identify a character of the track material;
- the trained neural network is configured to determine whether the character of the track material, for a rail assembly operation, satisfies an operation threshold;
- and
- the robotic arm is configured to place the track material at a target location.
A processing system comprising one or more processors and one or more memories coupled with the one or more processors and configured to cause the processing system to:
- identify, using a vision sensor associated with a robotic arm, a character of track material, wherein the robotic arm is configured to manipulate a track material at a target location;
- determine, using a trained neural network, that a character of the track material satisfies an operation threshold of a rail assembly operation;
- and
- in response to determining that the character of the track material satisfies the operation threshold of the rail assembly operation:
- place, using the robotic arm, the track material at the target location.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.