VisionNav
Robotics, Leader of Vision Navigation Unmanned Industrial Vehicles
Author: Huang
Manting from xzlrobot.com
Founded in 2016 by a team of professor and D.Eng. from the Chinese
university of Hong Kong, VisionNav Robotics becomes the dark horse in mobile
robot (AGV) industry in China With world-leading vision navigation technology
and strong explosiveness, it takes only 3 years to reach turnover of over 50
million RMB, which attracts tremendous attentions.
Focusing on vision navigation with
different technologies
Compared to other AGV navigation such as magnetic, QR code and
laser, there are three core advantages for vision navigation.
1）Strong Usability: Visual camera can obtain rich information such as color, texture,
etc. These can help mobile robots to achieve effective positioning, controlling
and perception in natural environment. It can greatly improve operation
efficiency, accuracy and stability, as well as reduce project installation
difficulties and shorten onsite installation time. Compared to other navigation
methods, vision navigation from VisionNav Robotics can adapt to complex
scenarios in the demand of customer’s regular use. For example, deformed racks or pallets after
long-time use, large proportion of oversize goods, unpredictable transportation
needs with periodical surge, vehicle dispatching and scheduling in narrow
space, etc.
2）Wide applicability: Adding modularized vision navigation
technology to industrial vehicles can easily realize unmanned transformation
and upgrade. At present, VisionNav Robotics can work with over 180 industrial
vehicles from 6 brands.
3）Cost-effective：
Cost
advantage of vision sensors has significantly
reduced the price of the product.
The price of industrial camera from world’s top-level supplier is around 3000
RMB, which is 10%-20% of the price of same level laser sensors. Therefore, in terms of ROI or
payback period for end customer, there is an obvious advantage for vision
navigation unmanned industrial vehicles.
It takes 9 year
(6 years before company establishment and 3 years after) for VisionNav Robotics
team to make “unmanned industrial vehicles driven by vision navigation
technology” in the worldwide. The vision navigation unmanned industrial vehicle
modules and vehicle scheduling system self-developed by the team lead the standards
of underlying positioning, perception and control logic in international robotics
technologies. There is extremely strong product competitiveness in both
domestic and global market.
Dr. Li Luyang, co-founder of VisionNav Robotic told reporter from
xzlrobot.com in an interview earlier, that “VisionNav
Robotics is still working on vision navigation technology at the current stage.
By improving the information acquisition ability and information transmission
speed, vision and motion of industrial vehicles can be combined in a more
perfect way, which can further improve the easy-to-use, applicability and
cost-effectiveness, and promote the inflection point of industry.
Video: Mr. Li Luyang from VisionNav Robotics interviewed by
reporter from
xzlrobot.com
Lead globally in vision unmanned
industrial vehicles area with large amount of applications in head customers
VisionNav Robotics is a company providing a platform to do
unmanned transform and upgrade to industrial vehicles. Their business includes
unmanned industrial vehicles development and transformation in production
lines, warehouses, logistics parks, airports and other semi-structured
scenarios. It is reported that vision navigation unmanned industrial vehicles
from VisionNav Robotics have been applied successfully in over 30 sites from
industrial head customers.
There are 2 advantages of VisionNav Robotics, which will keep the
leading in vision navigation unmanned industrial vehicle area.
（1）
Technical
accumulation. For 9 years VisionNav Robotics has been working on vision
navigation field in depth. With the
help of their world-class team they will continue to increase spending
in vision navigation R&D in the next 3 years to build higher technical barrier. “The responsibility of leading
enterprises in the industry is to promote the appearance of industry explosion
breaking point. VisionNav Robotics is make its own efforts. Whether there is explosion
breaking point for vision navigation in the fields of unmanned industrial
vehicle, the decisive factor is not market demands, but technology and product. It is fair enough to say that there are no any unmanned industrial
vehicles of any companies worldwide can fully meet the customer's requirement
on efficiency, function, cost, and vehicle reformation.Therefore we will not
feel any comfort for the current situation, instead we should increase the
investment on R&D, strive forward with our whole heart and mind and never
stop working deeply on vision navigation and products until our technology and
project can fully meet customer’s requirement.” Dr. Li Luyang emphasized in the
interview.
（2）
The landing of mature business mode helps to
accumulate rich project experience. Vision navigation unmanned industrial vehicles and systems from
VisionNav Robotics is known to apply successfully in many fields including
ecommerce logistics, retail logistics, bonded logistics, FMCG, automotive
manufacturing, new energy, and so on. More than 60% of their customers are the
world’s top 500 companies. VisionNav Robotics can provide solutions for complex
scenarios, many of them are industry first and advanced, such as 9.4m high
level unmanned loading on racks, self-adaption picking and placing goods
technology, real-time positioning with correction technology. These can
creatively solve the difficulties to automatically transport irregular parts. During
2019 CeMat Asia, VisionNav Robotics exhibited their vision navigation control
module, and the world’s first highly precise stacking solution of multiple
cages. “In our industry, all valuable technologies and products need to be
precipitated and excavated by a large amount of customer requirements and
application scenarios, then force engineers to verify their R&D result in
customer actual requirement and applications, then again force back the
engineer for continuous iteration. If you only make a laboratory prototype or
only deploy at 1-2 customer sites, there is still a long distance for volume
production, because you may even understand the actual requirement of your
customer. The advantage of VisionNav Robotics lies in technology and product continuous
iteration via large numbers of customer sites and applications. Their R&D
team nevel alienate themselves from their customer to optimize products at the
gradient directions, so that they can do at fastest speed of growth with
highest efficiency.” Explained by Dr. Li Luyang about his thought of the
relationship between customer needs and R&D.
As for the development in the future, Dr. Li Luyang said “the
easiness, adaptability and cost-effectiveness of vision navigation technology
needs continuous optimization. We will always adhere to it. Base on this, we’ve
developed big outdoor scenarios using unmanned tractors in the airport. It will
gradually extend to other important application scenarios such as wharfs. The
goal of VisionNav Robotics is to become world leading company providing
universal platform of precise driverless technology.”
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