On October 13, Logis-Tech
Tokyo 2021,the largest professional logistics exhibition in Japan, opened. The
exhibition lasted from October 13th to 15th for a period of three days.
Attracted almost 20000 business representatives and professional visitors from
logistics, manufacturing, machinery, trade and other industries to visit the
exhibition. During the exhibition, VisionNav's latest counterbalanced stacker
forklift VNP15 was unveiled, demonstrating unmanned handling and stacking
operations, which attracted much attention on exhibition site. It is worth
noting that this is also the world's first appearance of this new product after
its launch and the order was signed on the same day.
“We hope that through this
exhibition, new technologies and new options will be provided for unmanned
upgrading of industrial internal logistics in the post-epidemic period. The
number of visitors at this exhibition has reached the level of 2019 before the
epidemic, and we remain optimistic about business expansion in the Japanese
market," said Kiki Ren, Japan Sales Director of VisionNav.
Flexible
docking of automation equipment, a new path for production line logistics
upgrading.
The upgrade of production
line logistics is one of the focuses of this exhibition. By connecting to the
production management system, VisionNav’s unmanned forklift can seamlessly
connect with manipulators and artificial terminals to complete the closed loop
of internal logistics automation. At the exhibition site, the palletizing
manipulator synchronizes the information to the system after palletizing. Then
the system sends handling instructions to counterbalanced forklift, dispatches
the forklift to the designated location to pick up the goods, and transfers to
the production line for manual disassembly . At the same time, in the buffer
area, in addition to conventional pallet handling,it also demonstrated the
stacking operation of multi-layer storage cages for special material placement requirements.VisionNav’s
highly flexible driverless forklift products are easy to connect with
man-machines and multiple equipment. The fastest project introduction takes
only 7 days, which is very suitable for traditional or automated production
lines with unmanned logistics requirements.
Focus
on customer demands and improve products’core capabilities
"Work efficiency,
accuracy, and import complexity are the three most concerned factors when
enterprises choose driverless forklift products," Kiki Ren said. Different
from traditional manufacturers, VisionNav develops driverless forklifts based
on the unmanned driving framework, focusing on enhance the perception and
control capabilities of vehicles, improving operating efficiency, accuracy and
adaptability to complex scenarios, and quickly helping companies achieve
"machine replace person" .
1)
Precision
VisionNav believes that the
operation accuracy of driverless forklift products mainly includes two aspects:
global positioning accuracy and local operation accuracy. At the global
positioning level, VisionNav’s driverless forklifts use visual navigation
technology with less environmental transformation. In terms of local operation
accuracy,VisionNav has developed a "vision + 3D laser"
high-sensitivity hybrid sensor to provide accurate environmental information
for terminal operations. And in terms of motion control, the accuracy of
repeated delivery reaches ±20mm after multiple iterations of the algorithm.
2)
Efficiency
“We always believe
that efficiency is the key indicator for the success of driverless forklift
products. Efficiency does not only refer to the driving speed, but more
importantly, the accuracy and smoothness of local actions. For example, when
two forklifts carry the same cargo, the driving speed is inseparable. But the
time spent on forklifting pallets is very different, which is a great test of
the control ability of driverless forklift." VisionNav Robotics has
undergone multiple algorithm iterations and a large number of project
practices. At present, the efficiency of driverless forklifts has reached the
efficiency of manual operations. "Compared with previous version, the
efficiency under the new algorithm has increased by nearly 300%. We are very
pleased to share the new algorithm with many old customers to help companies
further improve logistics efficiency."
3)
Ability to adapt to complex scenarios
Based on more than 100
projects and over 500 proposed solutions experiences, VisionNav team deeply
realizes that the operating environment of driverless forklifts is quite complex,
not only spanning multiple scenarios, including truck loading and unloading,
put away and retrieval from high level racks, pallet stacking, stillage cage
staking,etc, also need to face problems such as man-machine mixing, random
placement of goods, and non-standard goods. Therefore, during the process of product
development, VisionNav will not only pay attention to the development of singal
vehicle capabilities, but also focus on the expansibility of products,
including environmental perception, customer system docking, and automation
facility docking capabilities. For example, Bright-eye system can track people,
vehicles, and storage locations from the top of the production line, and
provide more environmental data for driverless forklift operations.
4) Security
The maximum safe driving
speed, safety control module, and safety performance of driverless forklifts
have also attracted much attention from visitors. In terms of body protection
and obstacle avoidance, VisionNav Robotics strictly follows international safety
design standards, and is equipped with 360°laser obstacle avoidance, which is
safe and reliable. In the past 2020, VisionNav Robotics has obtained the CE
certificate for driverless industrial vehicles in compliance with the
2006/42/EC and ISO 3691-4: 2020 issued by TV SÜD Group.
About VisionNav Robotics
VisionNav Robotics（www.visionnav.cn),
founded in 2016, a global leader in industrial driverless vehicles, is
committed to empower vehicles with technology and provides flexible unmanned
logistics solutions with core of industrial driverless vehicles. At present, it
has developed and produced 8 series of driveless forklifts and tractors
products, which broke through 9.4m high access, 2.0m narrow aisle access,
driverless loading and unloading trucks, and multi-layer mobile frame stacking.
More than 50 industry benchmark companies have field application cases,
covering automobile manufacturing, tires, food, petrochemicals, e-commerce
logistics, third-party logistics, pharmaceuticals and other fields. In September
this year, VisionNav completed hundreds of millions of Yuan in C-round funding.
Investors include Bytedance, Shunwei Capital, China Unicom CICC, IDG Capital,
Lenovo Ventures and Eastern bell capital.
