Comment by jacquesm
9 years ago
Correct. A typical bin contains many different part ids but it would be trivial to make other divisions.
9 years ago
Correct. A typical bin contains many different part ids but it would be trivial to make other divisions.
Neat!
So each item is actually identified right down to the size, colour, type, etc, but then literally bucketed into a group of similar items?
Yes, because otherwise I'd have to make very many passes through the machine to sort a particular batch.
I was thinking that you had trained the identifier just on the bucketized classes instead- fewer classes comprising all the similar parts. Maybe higher identification rate that way, or maybe not. Identifying right down to the specific colour and part means a heck of a lot of classes to train though.
This kind of stuff fascinates me. I've worked on software for package sorting machines in Amazon warehouses. Very similar idea to this: identify, remove from conveyor at right place/time. Only the machines are millions of dollars, run at very high speeds, and use barcode scanning for identification.
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