Yifei Technology's Scara composite mobile robot is launched globally

The selling price is 50% lower than the collaborative compound, and the equipment delivery time is reduced by 60%.

In recent years, the mobile robot market has grown rapidly. In today's manufacturing industry, mobile robots are mainly used to transport goods. They are divided into lurking AGVs, forklift AGVs, traction AGVs, etc., and are mainly used in 3C, automobiles, 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 the data of CMR Industry Alliance and statistics from the New Strategic Mobile Robot Industry Research Institute, 1,150 new composite mobile robots will be added to the Chinese market in 2022, from 120 in 2018 to more than 1,000 in 2022. In recent years, the number of composite robots has gradually increased.



Chart: Sales volume (units) and growth rate of composite mobile robots in China from 2018 to 2022

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 sub-units, the 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, which discourages many customers who want to use composite robots. 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 needs of high flexibility and navigation positioning; 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. 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, professional scheduling strategy packages are formulated for specific application scenarios to solve the problem of single scheduling strategies and insufficient 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 better in coordination, cooperate with each other without affecting each other, and maximize their efficiency.

World premiere: R20-60 Scara composite 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.

At present, this new composite robot product has been applied to 3C industry customer sites to achieve automatic loading and unloading of panels. The project uses laser and QR code fusion navigation and positioning technology to achieve AGV parking position accuracy <5mm, and achieve high-precision parking position accuracy of AGV; through visual guidance technology, it meets the 1m loading and unloading requirements. Automatic loading and unloading and the transfer of finished products and rough materials connected to 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.





Review editor: Liu Qing