Wine Glass Picking
MIRAI Case Study
The Task and its Challenges
The task involves a collaborative robot picking wine glasses individually from an unsorted collection and placing each glass on a side table. It is inspired from an actual application at a workstation in a German production facility, where a human operator handpicks wine glasses from a semi-sorted stack and sets them on a moving conveyor belt. This tasks brings three main challenges for a robot:
Classic automation solutions — with or without vision systems — would be either unable to deal with these complexities or very expensive to set up. Even then they would be tailored for this task alone and no others.
The Solution
MIRAI is a vision-based robot control system from Micropsi Industries that, using artificial intelligence, enables robots to deal with complexity in production that would be otherwise impossible or extremely difficult to get around with hand-engineered solutions, prohibitively expensive as well. MIRAI attaches to and augments industrial robots. Once fitted with MIRAI, a robot can perceive its workspace and correct its movement where needed as it performs a task. MIRAI can be easily and quickly trained or retrained for myriad tasks by those with no background in engineering or artificial intelligence.
Compared with other available automation solutions, MIRAI makes it possible for:
When deployed for a task, the MIRAI system kicks in when needed for a complex step or steps in an application process.
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The Solution Setup
The solution setup comprises the MIRAI system (including the control box and the camera), a Universal Robots UR5, an OnRobot force-torque sensor, a Robotiq gripper, and a ring light (see the marked-up image below).
What follows are the five process steps (see the illustration to the right). Four of the five steps are governed by the robot’s native control system, while the MIRAI control system takes over during the picking step (step 2).
A MIRAI Controller
B Universal Robots UR5
C OnRobot Force-Torque Sensor
D Robotiq Gripper
E Ximea xiQ USB3 camera
F Effilux ring-light
Return on Investment
The return on investment for this solution (MIRAI plus a collaborative robot) is less than one year. This particular scenario assumes a standard robot cell, a two-shift operation, and a cost of €43,200 for each factory worker.
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