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Grading potplants
Aris produces several systems for potplant sorting. All kinds of potplants can easily and reliably be evaluated and sorted according to specific client requirements. The systems can sort: height, width, volume, symmetry, density, number of buds, number of flowers, flower colour and number of branches etc.
Also, shape deviations as seen from above or from the side can be detected including flower and/or leaf discolouration.
After the intermediate sorting process, a distribution pattern can be obtained based upon measurement properties that were programmed in the software before sorting. The capacity of these systems is determined by potplant size, the number of properties to be evaluated and the desired accuracy. The capacity is somewhere between 1000 and 9000 plants per hour.
This system is developed in co-operation with machinebuilder Flier Systems and Frans van Zaal. |
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Grading orchids
The main part of potplant we sort are orchids, wich you can devide in two groups: phalaenopsis and others like dendrobium, phaphiopedilum, oncicium, cambria, miltonia, zygopetalum, epidendrum, cattleya, brassia, ...
The capacity of these systems is somewhere between 1000 and 4000 plants per hour.
Phalaenopsis
Mostly the sorting of phalaenopsis is done in three stages. In the first stages all plants are placed in the same direction and volume. At the second camera we look at the amount of branches and buds and the height. Finally we sort the plants again looking at the count of flowers and buds, the count of branches, ripeness, height and color of the flowers.
Other orchids
Aris can also grade other kinds of orchids named above. These are sorted in one or two stages on height, count of branches, density, ripeness, color of the flowers, count of flowers and buds depending on wich sort is coming through the camera.
On the wesite of "Vakblad voor de bloemisterij" you can have a virtual look at the complete system for growing plants of one of our custumors (Optiflor).
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Grading chickens
The AQS-system is the first of it's kind that can learn to grade
and sort chickens. Via the camera system, the software programme detects and establishes many deviations in colour as well as registering profile deviations such as, shape, size, broken wings and missing parts etc.
The AQS-system also collects data from the products and product streams to feed and control the entire slaughterhouse operating system. The standard AQS version can be upgraded to handle no less than 12.000 chickens per hour. The system was developed exclusively for Stork Food Systems |
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Rombomatic
Automatic plant cutting and potting system
The Rombomatic is a modular system that grades branches at high speed, automatically cuts the branch into smaller subsections and pots them. Aris vision software opens the way to simulated intelligence and automatic eye-hand co-ordination. The gripper takes a branch from the feeder and rotates it in front of a camera. During rotation, the vision software builds a 3D-image of the branch, after which it will be determined if the branch is suitable and if so, where the robot should cut.
The vision software is also responsible
for checking the cuttings after each cutting process.
There are already some Rombomatics in use. These Rombomatics are suitable for cutting and potting some types of roses. Soon the Rombomatics will also be suitable for automaticly cutting other plants.
The Rombomatic has been developed based upon the requirements of a group of important rose growers and in a tight cooperation with tree grower 'Bert Rombouts'.
Since 2007 the Rombomatic is further developped and produced in tight cooperation by Aris, Ferdar Automation Technology, ZTI Mechatronics and Rombomatic BV.
More information about the Rombomatic you can read in this article. |
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Grading cut flowers
Aris has developed several systems for popular cut flowers such as the rose, gerbera, chrysanthemum, statice and alstroemeria.
For ZTI Mechatronics, Aris produced the software for the RoseMatic vision section. This system sorts roses with both small and large flowers according to length, thickness and ripeness.
With BTM, Aris has also developed a grading system as part of an automatic harvest-grading-bundle-system for chrysanthemums.
Aris also has some new systems. One of which is for grading roses according to length and the number of buds (6.000 branches per hour), alstroemeria's according to length, thickness, crookedness and flower size (8.000 branches per hour) and statice according to length, thickness, crookedness, flower area and ripeness (8000 branches per hour). |
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Grading seedlings
Aris developed some systems to grade seedlings and young plants. There are two kind of systems, one for global evaluation in trays and one for detailed evaluation of individual plants. Plants placed in a small pot, pass by a camera while rotating.
During this rotating transition, the camera records a set of images after which the systems sorts the plants. The 'Plant Selection System' can sort up to 18.000 plants in one hour. This system is developed in co-operation with machinebuilder Flier Systems. |
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Ping Pong Robot
We have
developed a robot that can play ping pong with a human being.
This robot could be seen in action at the 'easyFairs
Mocon exhibition 2005' in
's-Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands, at 'Automatica 2006' in Munich in Germany and
at 'Vision and Robotics 2007' in Ede in the Netherlands.
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