Sam Biermans. He's Channel Manager with Pickit. Sam, thanks for joining us. Hi Todd. I'm happy to be here and as you said, some things do sound like science fiction, but it's not always what it is. I know that and I can't wait to dive into it before we get into the, the actual technology. Sam, tell us a little bit about yourself and a little bit about Pickit. Okay, Pickit is a Belgium-based company and we were established under the name of Intermodalics and we still do a lot of projects on the software side, so purely software, high-end vision and robotics.
And it goes from indoor GPS positioning to as broad as you can see, self-driving cars, drones, household biotics during the , 11, 12, we got a lot of requests from different companies about, hey, can you write me software for my camera and my robots? Uh, because we got so many requests, we knew there was a market question about a 3D vision solution that will help people pick up objects from a bin basically.
And that's where, that's from where we started and then we launched a product, what's Pickit 3D. And so I've been working the company now two years and I've been mainly focusing on the U. So before I worked in the data center construction, uh, and I was a commercial technical responsibility for the whole project from getting an order into completion on two to three year projects of data center, manufacturing, construction. So the building side, the technologies, and inside the data center.
Interesting stuff. That's pretty cool. Um, right off the top here as we dive into this thing, I want to spend a little time talking about the differences between 2D and 3D. On the one hand that's perfectly obvious. Uh, but what are some of the implications of that and moving into this world with all this 3D technology?
So, what we're basically doing as a complete that is, moving into the 3D market is also we're building our own markets.
So a lot of people, especially in the industrial automation world, they know 2D. They know 2D cameras, they know their capabilities, they know their strengths, but they also know their weaknesses because people know 2D, there's also a lot of workarounds to get a 3D situation into 2D scene where a 2D camera can handle it.
For example, vibration tables, mechanical singulation projects. So 2D cameras are great for a lot of solutions that are out there, but a lot of people are also working with 2D where they would benefit more from 3D. What is the biggest difference that a 2D system is perfect for doing quality control, Barcode rereading, color scanning, ah, surface controls, those kinds of things. Where a 2D system struggles is parts singulation.
So once a part is singulated, a 2D system is brilliant. That's also not what we're aiming for with our company because we know that the 2D systems who are out there [inaudible] and all the other guys, they're perfect in doing a quality scan on the singulated objects. Where we're moving in is before we get the object singulated, that's where the 3D comes in handy, because then the product line, different, um, orientations that are on top of each other.
They like touching, uh, they lie in a dirty environment, all those kinds of things. And that's where 2D system has more, I wouldn't say limitations, but it has not the capabilities to handle this. In terms of the markets that you're aiming at, Sam, is it, it sounds like it can be very broad in terms of any bin picking sort of applications.
Is that true? Are you looking under more narrow set of application? Yeah, it's good. Just that question because we see a lot in the world that people on Linkedin and wherever the marketing strategy say, Hey, been picking solved, so we as a company, we're not.
Yeah, you probably have heard of seeing those kinds of sentences. What we're trying to do is we're trying to help manufacturing companies who struggle with finding labor forces to do repetitive tasks. The first, there was a big wave in automation when robots started.
People started learning, hey, we can do repetitive tasks, we can do certain things. Now a lot has been automated last years and then with collaborative robots there was a new wave coming in. What suddenly was possible that you will work as alongside the robot without having fences, gauges or without having people that are highly-skilled trained for it, because it's now accessible to more people and that's what we're trying to do. We're not trying to solve every been picking application.
We're trying to help people solve applications by doing it themselves. You can go to an integrator and pay grand to get him fixed a 3D bin picking solution for one product in your factory.
That has been solved, that has been done. What we have is off-the-shelf product that you can integrate with your robot and it helps you to solve certain applications. How do we qualify these applications? We always test the products so we have a comfort zone, what we call the typical applications. What are these? These are most of the time picking steel billets and I'm putting them in heat furnace, picking driveshaft couplings, picking objects that are fist-sized that are metal or plastic and they're in a bin and now you need to singulate them because you're going to grind them, you're going to heat treat them, you've got to whatever you want to do with them and that's something we, we know we do what and we do it fairly straightforward.
It sounds like the payload that you can handle is all over the place from steel to small plastic parts. I wanted to make sure I heard that correctly. Hey Pick-It. I'm looking for this object.
Can you find it for me and pick it. We'll tell the robot, yes, I find it for you and it's lying here. X, Y, Z , that orientation but also xyz rotation. So that means that the robots can go into a bin and grasp an object on a certain spot of hole.
For example, if you have a dry shift that's just been milled, you don't want to grab it on the middle surface, you probably want to grab it on a thicker edge or something where you don't damage the middle surface.
The thing about 3D that we don't really understand as a human how it works because we use it every day and our eyes are the best 3D camera in the world. Our eyes together with our brain can handle a long, dark light, very bright light surfaces that are complete flat because we have a brain and that's the artificial intelligence behind it.
We know what we're seeing. A 2D camera only sees in one plane while a 3D camera sees in two, three dimensions. So not only a plane, but they can also see the Z or the depth information. I'm the guy on the factory floor and I'm saying I'm, I'm looking to automate more and more of the, of the whole manufacturing process. Walk me through how do I, what's, what's my decision process? How to first do I identify what I've got that lends itself to a 3D application and then how do I begin to step through that doing the design part of it, figuring out the, the financial part of it.
Just walk me through how I would do that. So what we always suggest people is if it's possible, start easy. However, enthusiasts who want high resolutions and levels of detail will definitely require a very powerful GeForce graphics card, as the 3D imaging takes up an awful lot of processing power. But, a combination of the 3D Vision Kit, a high-end graphics card eg. Overall we would characterize 3D Vision as an interesting and genuinely practicable 3D technology which gives you a foretaste of where the entertainment industry is headed for the next few years.
In the long run we feel that 3D methods which do not require an annoying pair of glasses will be the ones to triumph - though we may have to wait some time for their development.
We await it with interest. Review Nvidia 3D Vision. Asus G51J: 3D notebook. The equipment you need for 3D Vision. On-screen tips. Performance suffers. Massive loss of brightness. We will briefly outline them here: The shutter glasses swallow up the screen brightness to a large extent, and so you will need a machine with as bright a screen as possible.
Unfortunately, screen brightness is a weak point for many notebooks. DCH brings nothing to the table- stick with standard drivers. I've never had a problem with DDU blocking driver updates on reboot, but I've only installed through , and am in no rush to waste time with Edit: Looks like Wagnard states in his read-me that you should disconnect from internet until after installing new driver.
Maybe that feature no longer works. You'll need to use DDU. You're right, I did notice the Nvidia Control Panel was missing. I forgot to mention that. Not perfect, but works. The only thing I had to do is to download the standard version of So, basically I have followed Losti instructions but with different drivers Games that I have tried with success are: A plague tale innocence, Dirt Rally 2.
But the same do not work in Windows 10, so I suppose the author Masrkus - Pauldusler has to make some changes, if that is possible. Seems you are in Win10 , UE4 games will not work with driver created than This is not related to the fix Manager. You need windows 10 with october Update not the Mai update.
Than everything is fine also in windows 10 with latest driver and 3D vison. It seems that I can not remove Windows 10 version, it only was possible until 10th day after the installation, and them Microsoft deleted the backup from the computer. Duerf, I'm on Windows 10 with standard official Let's not complicate things - just install These drivers will be good for a long time to come - newer drivers though always welcome don't necessarily offer anything new except some game tweaks.
Ok, maybe that is a good idea. For you W10 users, don't forget about the W10 optimization guide by Helifax. Let's please not create headaches for ourselves Psychology dictates that after a while, one would stop caring to change, ultimately having the user miss out on fun times I had that Windows issue with the hacked driver as well.
After updating Windows , at first 3D Vision appeared to be working. Tried again started in 2D this time and turned 3D once ingame, it appeared to be working until the player finished the mission and respawned in the hub-ship or respawned in the mission due to jumping out of bounds, and get an image freeze again.
I thought it was a game specific issue since the game worked normally except when this specific condition was activated. Installed the new nvidia driver through 3D Fix manager , more problems start appearing : frame sequential does not activate properly. Finally I come here and see your recommendation and try to reinstall the nvidia driver So I confirm if you update Windows to , you should stick to nvidia driver The problem is that some times new games need recent drivers to work properly and smooth.
Stickin to Maybe Nvidia could decide not to break totally the support and release a 3D Driver from time to time every 6 months, I don't know , if that is possible, provided that the 3D driver is probably just the same in all these past years.
You can view any ParaView data files in stereo. Here are some example files: blow. We tested the Lg LX and found the checkerboard to be less than satisfactory. The Panasonic Viera does not have Checkerboard stereo. Create and use a stereo ParaView shortcut You can still use ParaView in non-stereo mode by directly clicking on paraview.
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