SYSTEM AND PROCESS FOR PICKING TIRES IN AN UNKNOWN ARRANGEMENT

摘要

The invention is directed to a tire picking system (100) that performs a process for picking one or more tires stored in an unknown arrangement and for which a target location must be realized. The invention is also directed to a gripper (108) forming part of such a tire picking system (100). The invention is also directed to a robot (102) including a gripping device (104) supported by a pivotable elongated arm (106), the gripping device extending from the elongated arm to a free end (104a) where the gripper of the invention is disposed. The disclosed inventions involve an image processing module that applies data representative of the physical environment around the robot (102) to a deployed neural network in order to determine, using the deployed neural network, one or more parameters of a target tire (P*); such that the robot is set in motion based on the determined parameters of the target tire, so that the gripper can pick a target tire (P*) selected by the system (100) from among the stored tires along an inner boundary (FI) of a sidewall (F) of the selected target tire (P*).