US 12,220,817 B2
Automation system and method for handling products
Tobias Rietzler, Munich (DE); Manfred Rietzler, Bangkok (TH); and Andreas Däubler, Munich (DE)
Assigned to ROBOMINDS GMBH, Munich (DE)
Appl. No. 17/633,657
Filed by ROBOMINDS GMBH, Munich (DE)
PCT Filed May 14, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/063415
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 8, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/028084, PCT Pub. Date Feb. 18, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2019 121 889.6 (DE), filed on Aug. 14, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0314433 A1, Oct. 6, 2022
Int. Cl. B25J 9/16 (2006.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); G06T 7/60 (2017.01)
CPC B25J 9/163 (2013.01) [B25J 9/1697 (2013.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); G06T 7/60 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20081 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for handling products (17) using an automation system (11), the products being captured by means of an imaging sensor (18) of a control device (12) of the automation system and being handled by means of a handling mechanism (13) of a handling device (11) of the automation system, comprising processing by way of the control device (12) sensor image data produced by the imaging sensor and controlling the handling device as specified by training data sets (26) contained in a data memory (21) of the control device, wherein the training data sets comprise training image data (23) or geometric data and control instructions (24) associated therewith, the training data sets being generated, as a statistical model (25), exclusively from geometric data contained in the training image data of products, by means of a computer using a computer program product executed thereon, the training data sets being transmitted to the control device; and manipulating the product or executing an action on the product based at least partially on the training data sets.