CapSen Robotics released v2.0 of its CapSen PiC software with a new user interface (UI) and programmable AI to tackle high-mix, low-volume bin-picking tasks.
CapSen PiC 2.0 combines 3D vision, motion planning, and control algorithms to provide robots with the ability to locate, pick, and manipulate objects from cluttered bins and shelves. It detects 3D objects in different positions and orientations, even when partially obscured or in tight spaces. The software controls the robot, end effector, and 3D cameras within a robot cell, removing the need to integrate a bin-picking system. The programmable AI enables high-mix, low-volume bin-picking tasks.
The hardware-agnostic platform's motion planning algorithms ensure collision avoidance while enabling fast and accurate parts picking, regrasping, and tasks such as detangling and assembly of shiny metal objects, such as bolts, springs, and washers. To ensure that the robot operates as intended with every cycle, the UI handles part teaching, configuration, calibration, deployment, running, and debugging.
Features:
- Repack
- Sorting
- Tote picking and stacking
- Deformable object picking
- Model-free picking
- Picking from non-rectangular bins
- Support for z-compliance devices
- Robot on a rail
- Support for multiple cameras
- Support for on-arm cameras
- Grasp verification
- Linear moves
- Relative action locations
- Action script editing and location recording
- Deployment templates
- Collision environment configuration
- Improved DIO UI - all your I/Os at a glance
- Trigger camera button
- Built-in help documentation
- Improved password protection
- Backup and restore data
Hardware:
- Computer with PiC software pre-installed
- 3D camera(s)
- Calibration equipment
Camera:
- Long range: 1.5 m
- Short range: 0.5 m
Object Sizes:
- Orientation: Any
- Shape: Any
- Minimum object size: 10 mm
- Minimum feature size (e.g. diameter): 3 mm
Object Types:
- Boxes (small and large, including palletizing)
- Objects with complex or unusual shapes
- Small, shiny, and semi-transparent objects
- Hardware, food items, medical devices, and more
Accuracy:
- 1 to 5 mm after picking
- 0.1 to 1 mm after fixturing
Speed:
- <1 s image processing/planning time
- 0.3 s part recognition (CAD matching) time
- 2 s cycle time with standard 6-axis arms
- Pick up to 30 parts/min
Robots:
- ABB
- Denso
- Fanuc
- Mitsubishi
- Precise
- Yaskawa
- ...and more
End Effectors:
- Vacuum
- Parallel gripper (custom design available)
- Magnetic
Environment:
- Indoor, climate-controlled
- Medical environments
- Warehouses
- Works with racks and shelves
