Why Did the East China Lithium Battery Automated Warehouse Choose MRDVS’s 3D Vision Slot Status Recognition Solution?

With the continuous improvement of warehouse automation, the design and application of Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) are facing higher standards. AGVs must achieve greater stability, safety, and intelligence to accurately identify the position of goods and efficiently complete tasks such as picking and placing items, while minimizing the risk of collisions.

Today, we are pleased to introduce how MRDVS, with its advanced vision solutions and comprehensive technical support, provides key intelligent upgrade solutions for partners facing the challenges of coordinating manual handling and automated AGV operations.

Background of the East China Lithium Battery Warehouse Project

An automated lithium battery warehouse in South China has deployed several AGVs to optimize the handling process. However, in daily warehouse operations, manual handling of goods is inevitable, leading to delays in updating the slot occupancy status information in the system. This delay may cause AGVs to receive incorrect operational instructions, reducing efficiency and potentially leading to safety risks.

To address this problem, the project plans to introduce an advanced slot status recognition system to comprehensively monitor slot statuses and provide real-time feedback to the Warehouse Management System (WMS). This ensures that AGVs can operate more efficiently, stably, and safely when performing picking and placing tasks.

Available Slot Status Recognition Sensors

• Single-point LIDAR: Only emits one laser beam at a time to form a point on the object surface. This method may overlook gaps between boxes or pallets, misidentifying the slot as empty, leading to stacking accidents.
• RGB Camera: When detecting the target area through deep learning, the presence of objects outside the training set can lead to misidentification and incorrect slot status information. Additionally, when judging slots with stacking needs, the RGB camera lacks height information, complicating stacking task arrangements.
• Ultra-Wide-Angle Fisheye Camera: Has significant edge distortion, posing challenges to model training and prediction accuracy, and requires additional costs for a server with a GPU.
• MRDVS RGB-D Camera: Provides 3D data and color information of the slots, with built-in computing power, eliminating the need for external industrial control computers.

MRDVS also offers an integrated hardware and software slot status recognition solution, along with professional model training and deployment guidance. Considering the high cost-effectiveness and easy deployment of the entire solution, the warehouse ultimately deployed hundreds of sensors, achieving comprehensive real-time warehouse monitoring of slot statuses.

Detailed Introduction to the MRDVS Solution

MRDVS’s 3D vision slot status recognition solution, developed based on the RGB-D camera, provides detailed data support for mobile robots by real-time monitoring the occupancy status and stacking height of each slot, ensuring precise picking and placing operations. This solution combines AI deep learning technology, embedding recognition algorithms in the camera to avoid misjudgments as much as possible.

• Comprehensive Monitoring: Accurately identifies slot status by collecting 3D data and color information combined with AI technology.
• Easy Deployment: The slot status recognition algorithm is embedded in the camera, reducing deployment and maintenance costs.
• Flexible Communication: Supports multiple communication methods such as TCP/IP, UDP, and HTTP, reporting data to the control system in real-time using JSON format.
• Efficiency Improvement: Real-time slot information transmission helps the dispatch system quickly and accurately assign tasks.

Check detail here: Enhance AGV Integration with Real-Time Warehouse Monitoring (mrdvs.com)

For higher warehouse monitoring needs, MRDVS is launching the T2 product, which can work at distances up to 30 meters with a point cloud resolution of 1608×280, meeting the requirements for high-precision long-distance measurement scenarios.

User Support and Services

In addition to product use and professional deployment guidance, MRDVS offers a full suite of solutions from semi-automatic labeling to model training and deployment, reducing data labeling difficulty and enabling users to flexibly enhance models and improve system performance.

As an expert in mobile robot and logistics warehouse automation vision solutions, MRDVS not only provides integrated hardware and software vision technology solutions but also comprehensive service support, committed to helping partners improve logistics automation levels, achieving more stable, safer, and smarter warehouse management.