Our solution
ABB robots positioned along the line pick panels off the roller conveyor and carry them to the next station. The grippers that hold the panels were designed specifically for the product and carry the Pi Robotik name.
A camera finds the radiator the robot will pick: a deep-learning semantic segmentation model separates the radiator from the background at pixel level, even on the striped surface of the roller conveyor.
The line runs on an interface we developed: each radiator's type and dimensions are identified from its barcode, it is assigned to one of three robots, and the robot stacks it onto the matching pallet. The workload split between the robots is set on screen; pallet fill levels and production counts per robot and per panel type are monitored live.
