公开(公告)号：US20180056333A1

公开(公告)日：2018-03-01

申请号：US15030666

申请日：2016-01-26

Applicant: SOLYSTIC

Inventor： El Bernouss HICHAM ,  Karine CREST ,  Agnès PHILPPE

IPC: B07C1/04 ,  B07C3/08

CPC classification number: B07C1/04 ,  B07C1/00 ,  B07C3/08 ,  B25J9/1697 ,  B25J15/0616 ,  B65G47/1485 ,  B65G2203/0225 ,  G06T7/521

Abstract: An installation for separating and singulating non-uniform postal articles of the small parcel or packet type is characterized in that it comprises a platform for storing a pile of loosely placed postal articles, a vision system adapted to form digital images of the pile of loose postal articles, which pile is static on the platform, and a pneumatic pickup head of a robotized arm. The vision system comprises at least one laser source that projects a beam of fanned-out laser lines onto the pile of articles, thereby making it possible, on the basis of images including the laser lines on the pile of articles, to compute accurately a map of depths, and to perform digital silhouetting so as to singulate an article from the pile of loose articles.