Service & Product
About services and products of FingerVision Co., Ltd.
solution(each industory)
Solution
We develop and introduce robot systems with our vision-based tactile sensor in several industries to resolve their issues.
食品加工業
food processing industry
Industry challenges
They regularly lack human resources and suffer from high-intensity tasks like repetitive work, handling hot food, etc.
Challenge
In factories processing lunch box products or delicatessen food, they handle many kinds of products and their shape and weight also vary; thus, many procedures, especially grasping, decoration and the like, have not be left to robots.
Solution
Robot arms with inexpensive tactile sensors installed reduce the burden in the production line.
Pick-and-place robot system for multi-variety and agile manufacturing
This technology can do by combining the lifting up motion and the holding behavior (slip avoidance control). The success rate of picking-and-placing by our robot system is higher than that without tactile sensor on hands.
DEMO
Pick and place of rice ball products
On the table are rice ball products scattered; here, the feedback via FingerVision is used for the arm to grasp one. Also, FingerVision scans the label to obtain the information whether it’s a rice ball of Salmon or Tuna to place it accordingly. This is the example that not only tactile sensation but also vision of nearby objects (proximity vision) work for autonomous control.
Vision-based tactile sensor
We launched vision-based tactile sensors as Alpha version.
Product line (Alpha version)
From the sequence of images captured by the camera, the sensor can obtain not only force distribution data (direction of x, y and z) but also slip distribution,
[A]Tactile sensor unit
Only sensors and image processing software.
[B]Gripper set
In addition to sensors, gripper and embedded PC to attach to robot arm are included in order to manipulate objects. Image processing software and library are installed.
[C]Evaluation Kit (rental gripper set)
Monthly rental option to initiate experiment or development easily.
In the future, sales options will be gradually expanded in accordance with the expansion of tactile modality image processing programs, hand shapes, connecting robot arms, etc.
Collaborative Study and Development
Joint research and development
We study and develop a product or solution using vision-based sensors as a collaborative project.*Now it may take some time to frame the whole initiative as a project.
