Autonomous Forklift - Cheese Stacking

At a cheese factory in the Netherlands, 12 self-driving forklifters have the task to stack and de-stack cheese boxes in a fully automated process. The autonomous forklifters provided by Toyota Material Handling move racks of cheese 24/7 between production and ripening halls. These racks are roughly 3 meters high and can be stacked up to 3 levels. Before placing one rack on top of another, the exact position where to place it, needs to be determined. Florinco, a developer of smart software solutions, has developed vision algorithms to extract certain features from the images to come up with more reliable measurements. The Helios ToF cameras were connected to an industrial PC with an Intel Atom processor, running Linux. This PC was connected to the forklifter’s internal network to communicate the measurement results to the central processor of the forklifter. Read the full case study: Helios2 3D ToF Camera: