Yifei Technology will present the Scara composite mobile robot at the Shanghai Industrial Expo

The mobile market has grown rapidly in recent years. In today's manufacturing industry, mobile robots are mainly used to transport goods. They are divided into latent AGVs, forklift AGVs, traction AGVs, etc., and are mainly used in 3C, automobile, logistics and other industries.

With the increasing demand for automation and the increasing complexity of processes, companies have an increasingly urgent demand for flexibility. Compared with the single functions of AGV/AMR, collaborative robots, and composite mobile robots that combine the characteristics of the three are obviously more flexible. As robots are increasingly integrated with actual application needs, composite robots can achieve continuous iterative evolution and combine more possible applications. Composite robots are currently the closest to future humanoid robots, and their application scenarios in the industrial field are very diverse, such as spraying, palletizing, inspection, patrol, security and many other fields.

According to data, the sales volume of composite robots in the Chinese market increased from 185 units to 933 units from 2017 to 2021, with an average annual compound growth rate of nearly 50%.

However, in terms of technical difficulty, composite robots are mainly composed of AMR, arms, visual cameras, and end effectors. The common composite robots in the industry are purchased by integrators for assembly and secondary development. This leads to the fact that the structure of the robot is relatively complex. Due to the differences in the various sub-units, their internal communication protocols are completely different, and the secondary development of integrators is relatively complex, which leads to the increase in the cost of composite robots, making many customers who want to use composite robots discouraged. At present, the most common composite machines on the market are collaborative robots + AMR, and the SCARA + AMR composite robot launched by Yifei solves the biggest pain point of this type of robot. Its price is 50% lower than that of collaborative composite robots, and the equipment delivery time is reduced by 60%.

Yifei Technology is a national-level specialized "little giant" enterprise . The company has a variety of robots and core components from arm robots to AGVs. The self-developed Zaiyi series AGV robots now have a variety of models including Camel-600 latent mobile robot, Camel-1000 latent mobile robot, D15-120 small King Kong pallet handling forklift mobile robot, F15-4500 handling and stacking mobile robot, F15S-2000 compact handling and stacking mobile robot, etc., based on self-developed multi-fusion navigation and self-developed 2D and 3D visual guidance technology to fully assist automated and efficient handling.

As the company with the most complete range of composite robots in China, the world's first scara composite mobile robot and has collaborative, industrial multi-specification six-axis composite robot products, becoming an important logistics robot supplier for 3C, medical, food, pharmaceutical, panel and other light industries, with full-scenario integration capabilities from production lines, packaging, logistics to warehouse management.

The AGV controller independently developed by Yifei can support the application of QR code navigation, laser navigation and sensor fusion navigation, taking into account the high flexibility and navigation positioning requirements; for the application of multi-machine collaborative scheduling and operation, the AntRCS intelligent scheduling system independently developed by Yifei is deployed to complete some complex processes and processes, and the independently developed robot scheduling system is responsible for the task allocation, scheduling and operation and maintenance of mobile robots. AntRCS combines scheduling algorithms with traditional scheduling algorithms and has a certain degree of autonomous learning ability.

At the same time, we develop professional scheduling strategy packages for specific application scenarios to solve the problem of single scheduling strategy and lack of specialization of traditional scheduling software. Users can use different scheduling strategy packages according to different scheduling scenarios to achieve optimal task allocation, multi-robot path planning and robot traffic control, so that robot clusters can work together better, cooperate with each other without affecting each other, and exert maximum efficiency.

World premiere: R20-60 Scara hybrid mobile robot

R20-60 is a composite mobile robot that combines a mobile robot platform with a Scara robot. It supports high-efficiency, high-precision handling and gripping operations for up to 6kg of cargo.

The mobile robot uses a navigation algorithm based on multi-sensor fusion such as QR code, laser SLAM, odometer, inertial navigation, etc. to achieve high-flexibility and high-precision navigation and positioning requirements, and uses the Scara end-point gripper based on end-point vision guidance to achieve flexible and efficient gripping of goods.

Features:

◆ Positioning and navigation: Adopting integrated navigation technologies such as QR code navigation and laser slam navigation to achieve precise positioning;

◆Motion control: It adopts dual-wheel differential drive and supports multiple motion control modes such as forward, backward, and rotation;

◆: Support multi-level power threshold control, can freely set the minimum charging power, and support idle charging control;

◆Safety protection: It has multiple safety protection measures such as front laser obstacle avoidance, contact edge collision, emergency stop button, etc.

◆Human-computer interaction: Equipped with touch screen, sound and light alarm to indicate the current operating status of the equipment;

◆Control mode: support automatic, manual and remote control;

◆Cargo loading and unloading: Supports positioning, grabbing and handling of materials with a maximum load of 6Kg, and provides customized end-gripper services to meet the application of materials of various sizes and types;

◆Positioning guidance: Support 2D and 3D visual positioning guidance, based on the visual algorithm to respond to high-precision flexible grasping of different types of materials;

◆Communication: Wifi network communication and seamless roaming, support network expansion;

At present, this new composite robot product has been applied to 3C industry customer sites to achieve automatic loading and unloading of boards. The project uses laser and QR code fusion navigation and positioning technology to achieve AGV parking position accuracy <5mm, and achieves high-precision parking position accuracy of AGV; visual guidance technology is used to meet the requirements of loading and unloading 1m. Automatic loading and unloading and the transfer of finished products and rough materials docked with the machine are all achieved through composite mobile robots. The implementation and operation of the project completely replaces manual process operations, liberates human expenditures, and effectively integrates human costs.

Yifei Technology will bring its R20-60 SCARA composite mobile robot and a full range of industrial robots to the China International Industry Fair (CIIF).

Review editor: Liu Qing