Mech Mind – The Advanced 3D Vision System For Robots
Mech Mind - Intelligence For Industrial Robots
Mech Mind puts intelligence into industrial robots. Applications include depalletising, palletising, bin picking, machine tending, assembly, gluing and locating.
Mech Mind have deployed intelligent robotic solutions across a wide range of industries such as automobile plants, appliance plants, steel plants, food plants, logistics warehouses, banks, and hospitals.
Features
- High-quality 3D data
- Excellent stability
- CE, FCC and VCCI certification
- Support for various objects
- Support for metal parts with dark or reflective surface
- Zero line of code is needed
- Plug and play, easy to use
Mech Mind features superior stability with collision checking and motion planning algorithms so you never have to worry about collision or singularity. The advanced vision algorithms enable the robot to handle various objects in different shapes and colours.
Applications
Depalletising
- The robot picks boxes or bags from the pallet and puts them on pallet or conveyor.
Machine Tending
- The robot picks randomly located parts and loads them to the machine.
Bin Picking
- The robot picks mixed parcels and puts them on the conveyor or logistics trolleys.
Order Picking
- The robot picks objects according to orders.
Videos
AI+ Robot Mass SKU Picking Solution
Parcel Loading with AI+3D Vision
Mixed-Carton Depalletizing with AI+3D Vision
3D-Vision guided Machine-Tending
High Efficiency Sorting
Mixed Case Palletizing
Solutions for the Manufacturing Industry
With advanced technologies such as deep learning, 3D vision and intelligent path planning, Mech-Mind provides complete and cost-effective AI+3D vision+industrial robot solutions to customers in the manufacturing industry.
Applications include vision-guided machine tending, gluing, assembly, locating, etc. We have already deployed our intelligent industrial robot solutions in many industries, such as automotive, machinery, steel, home appliances and furniture. Our products have been exported to overseas markets such as the U.S., Europe, Japan, South Korea and Thailand.
Advantages
- High Intelligence: Based on powerful AI algorithms, our solutions can handle different objects and deal with various complex situations.
- Strong Stability: Mech-Eye 3D Camera has been tested continuously for more than 7000 hours. Intelligent path planning can avoid collision and other issues.
- Rich Application Scenarios: Our solutions have been deployed in hundreds of customer scenarios in more than ten countries, including leading companies in the automotive, home appliances, steel, and food industries.
- Cost-Effectiveness: The price is only half to one-third of the same type of typical products.
- Strong Openness: Our solutions can be adapted to various mainstream robot brands and support integrating with various systems and the secondary software development.
- Efficient and Straightforward Deployment: The plug-and-play solutions save a lot of deployment time. The fully visualized, code-free programming interface dramatically reduces the usage difficulty and deployment costs.
Vision-Guided Machine Tending
Machine Tending: The robot grabs randomly-placed parts in the bin one by one and places them on the machine tool or conveyor belt.
- The intelligent path planning algorithm can help robots to operate stably in real factory environment, avoiding collision;
- The intelligent grabbing algorithm can guide robots to choose the most proper grabbing position, ensuring stability;
- Able to handle parts of different sizes, reflective surfaces or complex structures;
- Parts can be packed tightly or randomly placed. Dark surfaces do not affect recognition.
Specification
| Accuracy | The accuracy is up to 0.2mm@0.6m. |
| Speed | The single cycle time can reach 3s (the actual speed is related to the layout and end effector). |
| Flexibility | Able to handle reflective/black surfaces, complex structures, tight packing or overlapping, etc.; Intelligent path planning and grabbing algorithms to ensure stability. |
| Objects | Support parts of various shapes and sizes. |
| Major Application Fields | Automotive, machinery, steel, home appliances, etc. |
| Robot Brands | Adaptable to various major robot brands. |
| Common Cameras | Mech-Eye Pro S Enhanced, Mech-Eye Pro M Enhanced, Mech-Eye Pro L |
Vision-Guided Gluing/Assembly/Locating
Gluing: The vision system recognizes the contour of randomly-placed parts and guides the robot to spray glue according to gluing route.
Assembly: The vision-guided robot grabs randomly-placed designated parts and assembles them on the designated position.
Locating: Able to locate randomly-placed objects.
Applicable for fields such as automotive, home appliances and furniture manufacturing.
Gluing
- High-precision, able to quickly locate parts and glue them according to the route;
- High speed and stability;
- Able to provide customized camera solution and offer ultra-precision quality pictures with big field of view.
Assembly
- Supports various objects (including various parts, etc.);
- High precision, high speed, stable and reliable;
- Objects can be randomly placed, recognition and assembly won’t be affected.
Locating
- Supports various objects of different sizes and shapes;
- High precision, high speed, accurate object locating;
- Objects can be randomly placed, recognition won’t be affected.
Specification
| Accuracy | The accuracy is up to 0.2mm@0.6m; The actual accuracy depends on the camera model. |
| Speed | High speed, stable and reliable (the actual speed is related to the layout and end effector). |
| Flexibility | Able to handle reflective/dark surfaces, complex structures, tightly packing or overlapping, etc. |
| Major Application Fields | Home appliances, automotive, furniture, etc. |
| Objects | Supports various parts. |
| Robot Brands | Adaptable to various major robot brands. |
| Common Cameras | Mech-Eye Pro S Enhanced, Mech-Eye Pro M Enhanced, Mech-Eye Pro L |
Typical Use Cases
Using advanced AI technologies such as deep learning, 3D vision, and intelligent path planning, Mech-Mind’s solutions have been implemented in manufacturing industries such as automotive, home appliances, etc.
Machine Tending for Black Parts for a Large Air-Conditioning Company
Workflow: The robot grabs parts (black parts) in the bin one by one and puts them on the conveyor belt.
- Able to identify black parts with uneven surfaces and complicated structures;
- Black parts can be tightly packed or randomly placed;
- Intelligent path planning algorithm can help robots to operate stably in real factory environment, avoiding collision;
- One cycle time is within 4s, seamlessly connecting industry upstream and downstream.
Camera: Mech-Eye Pro M Enhanced 3D Camera
Wheel Assembly for a Large Automotive OEM
Workflow: The robot recognizes the randomly-placed wheel, grabs it and assembles the wheel in the designated position on car body.
- Applicable for parts of different sizes;
- Support parts with reflective/dark surfaces;
- Support assembly on ongoing production line, high precision, high speed and stability;
Camera: Mech-Eye Pro S 3D Camera
Machine Tending for Large Parts (Crankshafts) for a Large Auto Parts Factory
Workflow: The robot grabs large parts (crankshafts) in the bin one by one and puts them on the conveyor belt.
- More than ten different large metal parts (cranksafts) of complicated structures;
- Crankshafts can be tightly packed or randomly placed;
- Intelligent grabbing algorithm can guide robots to choose the most proper grabbing position, ensuring stability;
- Intelligent path planning algorithm can deal with issues like collision avoidance.
Camera: Mech-Eye Pro L 3D Camera
Machine Tending for Track Links for a Large Mechanical Engineering Company
Workflow: The robot grabs randomly-placed parts one by one and identifies the front and back of the parts. If the front side is up, the part will be directly placed on the working table. If not, the part will be firstly turned over and then placed on the working table.
- More than ten different sized metal parts;
- Can handle complex situations such as parts with complex postures and similar front and back sides;
- Intelligent path planning to avoid collision;
- Camera with strong anti-reflection function to deal with ambient
light change; - Seamless industry upstream and downstream connection.
Camera: Mech-Eye Pro L 3D Camera
Gluing for Cabin Doors for a Large Bus Factory
Workflow: The robot recognizes randomly-placed parts (cabin doors) and glues them according to the required route.
- Applicable for more than ten various parts (more than 20 different cabin doors onsite) ;
- Parts can be randomly placed on the conveyor belt, no impact on recognition;
- Large scale cabin door gluing with high precision (cabin door size of 2m*1.5m), precision is less than 1mm at 2.5m point;
- Able to handle complex situations such as objects with reflective/dark surfaces.
Camera: Mech-Eye Pro XL 3D Camera (customized version)
Leaking Point Locating for a Large Air-conditioning Company
Workflow: The robot recognizes the random holes on the box and sticks the leaking check needle into the box to check.
- Cable ties/tapes/complex patterns/texts on box do not affect recognition;
- High precision, can accurately locate leaking points of around 0.8cm diameter with high speed and efficiency;
- Ambient light change doesn’t affect recognition effects, high stability.
Camera: Mech-Eye Pro S 3D Camera
Mech-Eye 3D Cameras
Model
Pro S Enhanced
Deep
Pro M Enhanced
Laser L
Optimal Scanning Range (mm)
500 – 1000
1200 – 3500
800 – 2000
1500 – 3000
Near FOV (mm)
350 x 220 @ 0.5 m
1000 x 1170 @ 1.2 m
500 x 350 @ 0.8 m
1280 x 1210 @ 1.5 m
Far FOV (mm)
690 x 430 @ 1.0 m
2910 x 3360 @ 3.5 m
1360 x 860 @ 2.0 m
2560 x 2420 @ 3.0 m
Resolution
1936 x 1216
2048 x 1536
1936 x 1216
2048 x 1536
Megapixels
2.3 MP
3.0 MP
2.3 MP
3.0 MP
Calibration Accuracy
0.05 mm @ 0.6 m
3.0 mm @ 3 m
0.1 mm @ 1 m
1.0 mm @ 2 m
Scanning Time
0.5 – 1.3 s
0.9 – 1.3 s
0.5 – 1.3 s
0.9 – 1.3 s
Baseline
150 mm
400 mm
280 mm
400 mm
Dimensions
270 x 76 x 140 mm
470 x 105 x 215 mm
402 x 75 x 160 mm
459 x 90 x 115 mm
Processor
NVIDIA Pascal™ 1 TFLOPS with 256 NVIDIA® CUDA® Cores
Operating Temperature
0~45℃（Max gradient 10℃/hour）
Communication Interface
Ethernet
Power Supply
12V DC
24V DC
Safety and EMC
CE / FCC / VCCI
Protection Class
IP65
Cooling
Passive
Field of View
