Package palletizing algorithm

How to efficiently and harmoniously stack parcels of different sizes, in a fully automated way? Acsystem has developed an original intelligent and tailor-made stacking algorithm, based on intuitive criteria contributing to quality stacking (stack compactness, use of free space, overlapping, etc.).

Based on bin-packing techniques, Acsystem has developed an original stacking algorithm, based on intuitive criteria contributing to quality stacking (stack compactness, use of free space, overlapping, etc.). In total, a combination of more than 10 criteria, optimized using genetic algorithms, was used to develop the parcel placement strategy. The different adjustment parameters offer great flexibility to this solution and will allow it to be adapted to other industrial problems. The program, developed in simulation in the Matlab environment, is currently being tested in full scale and in real time on a prototype of the robotic cell designed by the company Fimec Technologies. The performances already observed exceed those of the best solutions on the market…

Link to the full article: http://www.acsysteme.com/fr/palettisation-automatique-3d