Mobile robot is one of the core equipment of the smart factory, and it can also be said that it is an important means to realize the interconnection of everything.On the afternoon of April 19th, at the scene of the smart factory theme forum of the 2019 China Robotics Industry Development Forum, Zhou Zhaopei, Sales Director of Hangzhou Hikvision Robotics Technology Co Ltd-Nanjing shared the topic of "IOT empowers smart manufacturing, mobile creates value
From Security to Robotics Explore the Intelligent Field
Mr. Zhou Zhaopei came up and said bluntly: "Some people know Hikvision, from the fact that we have been doing the security thing in the past few years," and he introduced that Hikvision is a subsidiary of the CLP Hikvision Group under the CEC, while Hikvision Robotics is a subsidiary of Hikvision. He explained that Hikvision is a subsidiary of China Electronics Corporation (CEC), and Hikvision Robotics is an innovative business company in the industrial field of Hikvision.
Hikvision was founded in 2001, and up to now has more than 30,000 employees worldwide, half of whom are R&D personnel, with 32 branches in China and 38 branches outside the country, and its business basically covers important regions around the world, with operating revenues ranging from 30 million RMB in 2002 to 49.8 billion RMB in 2018. There are three major production bases in Binjiang, Hangzhou, Chongqing and Tonglu. With a strong supply chain scale and the principle of prioritizing reliability, Haikang established a relatively good quality control system in the early days.
Why did Hikvision enter the field of robotics? Mr. Zhou Zhaopei explained, Haikang Robotics was formally established in 2016, deployed under the intelligent field of exploration, in fact, and the company's technology and positioning related to the Haikang is committed to becoming the world's leading video-centric IoT solutions provider, so do a good job of security business at the same time, tapping into the six new business in the wave of intelligent manufacturing, so Haikang Robotics should be on.
Haikang Robotics in 2014 set up a machine vision business unit, and now has a thousand people in the R & D team; Haikang Robotics marketing network in mainland China set up 11 offices, the use of the office mechanism, to be able to more quickly and conveniently serve all partners. At the same time, he said, because Hikvision in deep learning, image recognition, cloud computing and other aspects of more than a decade of technological precipitation, and therefore can continue to rapidly apply to the actual product, in practice, the application of lean visual perception, multi-dimensional perception, big data analysis, cluster scheduling and other technologies, to achieve the application of artificial intelligence on the ground.
Two main products to empower smart manufacturing
During the speech, Zhou Zhaopei introduced Hikang Robotics' two main categories of products: machine vision and mobile robots.
Machine vision is mainly positioned as a provider of hardware and general algorithms, and the products are divided into intelligent cameras, industrial cameras. For industrial cameras, Haikang categorizes them into industrial cameras up to 300,000 to 150 million resolution, X86 and VPU-based platforms, which can meet the vision applications, code reading in three major categories. He said: "Hikvon provides universal algorithm platform, no programming, simple and flexible, friendly interactive interface, of which the products are in line with the industry standard protocol. And it has been realized with partners in logistics, 3C, electronic semiconductor, automotive parts, new energy industry, food and drug industry, such as size measurement, positioning guidance, information recognition, deep learning and other functions." He then demonstrated the DWS system, which enables code reading, volume measurement, weight measurement, and visualization of the entire process in combination with security monitoring.
Zhou Zhaopei believes that the mobile robot, should focus on the field logistics, combined with the flexibility of the mobile robot, fusion of logistics information, optimize logistics configuration. Haikang divides mobile robots into latent series, shift series, forklift series, composite series, and heavy-duty series. Zhou Zhaopei showed Haikang's production base in Tonglu, all of which are robots to realize the operation, goods to people mode, realizing the automatic distribution of on-site logistics. He then showed the forklift launched by Haikang in 2018, the accuracy of which reached the millimeter level, and can realize the entire material automatic up and down shelves, unmanned handling from the recursive push type to the high shelves, and improve the utilization of space in the warehouse. After that, the composite series of robots were displayed, mainly equipped with manipulators, to realize the accurate identification of bulk materials, flexible picking exploration and unmanned transit.
"The robot can not be separated from the strong hardware support, the highest movement speed can reach 2.0m/s, can realize 7X24 hours charging. PCS robot scheduling control system, can automatically calculate the optimal walking path." Mr. Zhou Zhaopei explained, the robot can not be separated from the state of the monitoring, so our entire system inside the robot state including network status,, heat map and data report output for the use of units for analysis.
Mr. Zhou Zhaopei concluded, "Hikvon Robotics inherited the idea of doing security products, mainly located in the product supplier, and look forward to working with you, *** with the help of Made in China." Haikang from the key technology to mobile robots excessive, to discover a variety of robotic application scenarios, how do you think of Haikang this attempt? Welcome to leave your comments and views in the comments section.