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accuracy

0.1

mm

pick-rate

10

per minute

version

stand-alone

DISBY™ is the world first automated Lego™ brick sorting system. It features a novel AI system that recognizes bricks based on a minimal formal description retrieved from the internet (e.g. size, weight and description). It will be capable of sorting over 1200 bricks per hour. The current prototype reached a speed of 500 bricks per hour.

The Lego™ brick ecosystem consists of over 150.000 different pieces that greatly vary in size and topology. The problem to sort bricks is very multi-dimensional with many challenges:

  1. Brick segmentation: It is very hard to quickly and efficiently separate bricks in a single brick row , which is needed for recognition.

  2. Brick recognition: Due to diverse bricks topology and the sheer number of different bricks it is impossible to simply teach the machine to detect each part

  3. Brick sorting: Some kind of fast cache storage is needed

  4. Long term storage: Automated long term storage for over 100.000 boxes

The prototype solved the first two tasks using very fast, durable and precise linear guides for igus.

  1. Brick recognition: The ALTUMVI team developed an AI that is capable to efficiently recognize the bricks based on minimal formal brick definition that can be collected from the internet .

  2. Brick sorting: Very fast and durable local storage cache was developed to facilitate over 140 different boxes

Features:

  • Fully automated brick sorting.

  • AI that auto recognizes bricks from minimal formal description.

  • Local cache for 144 different brick types.

  • Automated local cache emptying system.

  • Prototype working 9 bricks per minute (final speed is aimed to be 20 bricks per minute or above).

  • Designed for 24/7 operation.

All planning, software and hardware development and manufacturing was done by the ALTUMVI team in-house.

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