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One to sort them all
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accuracy
0.1
mm
pick-rate
10
per minute
version
stand-alone
DISBY™ is the world first automated Lego™ brick sorting system. It features a novel AI system that recognizes bricks based on a minimal formal description retrieved from the internet (e.g. size, weight and description). It will be capable of sorting over 1200 bricks per hour. The current prototype reached a speed of 500 bricks per hour.
The Lego™ brick ecosystem consists of over 150.000 different pieces that greatly vary in size and topology. The problem to sort bricks is very multi-dimensional with many challenges:
Brick segmentation: It is very hard to quickly and efficiently separate bricks in a single brick row , which is needed for recognition.
Brick recognition: Due to diverse bricks topology and the sheer number of different bricks it is impossible to simply teach the machine to detect each part
Brick sorting: Some kind of fast cache storage is needed
Long term storage: Automated long term storage for over 100.000 boxes
The prototype solved the first two tasks using very fast, durable and precise linear guides for igus.
Brick recognition: The ALTUMVI team developed an AI that is capable to efficiently recognize the bricks based on minimal formal brick definition that can be collected from the internet .
Brick sorting: Very fast and durable local storage cache was developed to facilitate over 140 different boxes
Features:
Fully automated brick sorting.
AI that auto recognizes bricks from minimal formal description.
Local cache for 144 different brick types.
Automated local cache emptying system.
Prototype working 9 bricks per minute (final speed is aimed to be 20 bricks per minute or above).
Designed for 24/7 operation.
All planning, software and hardware development and manufacturing was done by the ALTUMVI team in-house.
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