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THE NEXT LEVEL OF INDUSTRIAL SAFETY


Today, the safety of Embedded systems imposes serious requirements on almost all industrial domains. Seavus addresses this by delivering safe applications in each and every solution we provide.

As part of the company's goals is to provide superior systems, for which Seavus has developed a system for a simulated crane storage facility. Throughout this demo, we showcase our expertise in the design and implementation of complex industrial applications where safety is considered to be a key requirement. The environment simulates a warehouse with objects that are moved within the premises using the electric hook, avoiding static and dynamic obstacles along its way.

The Machine Vision demo application developed by Seavus, enables full automation of the crane systems, avoiding the most common risk factors. The crane system provides object detection by utilizing cameras for reliable monitoring of the environment. Real-time processing of data controls the reactions and movements of the crane and sets the optimal route.

Main features

  • Real-time response
  • Protection of mission critical functionalities
  • Dynamic route calculation and status reporting
  • Hardware consolidation

Automated crane system enables

  • Load identification and then load movement to preprogrammed destinations
  • Regulation of crane pull force on initial load lift to prevent load damage from uncontrolled pull force
  • Constant monitoring of crane load
  • Safe movement procedure in case of sudden direction change
  • Monitoring of objects on calculated movement trajectory
  • Creation of safe movement tracking
  • Prevention of object collision by rapid response to obstacles appearing on the planned trajectory
  • Detection of foreign objects placed in the monitored area
To achieve the required functionalities, Seavus has partnered with:

Green Hills® Software

  • The systems are running on the INTEGRITY RTOS chosen for its proven track record of use in safety critical applications, and IEC-61508 pre-certification which makes it the perfect choice for applications such as this
  • The development of INTEGRITY RTOS applications is done with advanced MULTI Integrated Development Environment development environment

Freescale™

  • Latest industrial platform from Freescale, based on Layerscape QorIQ technology for overall system control and safety
  • The motor control is based on Kinetis MCU’s for driving and controlling DC motors with encoders achieving high precision positioning of the hook and soft start/stop sequences for minimal swing of the hook
  • Visualization based on i.MX6 platform with capabilities to process quite a complex image processing algorithms and exposure of 3D OpenGL rendered ground layout
  • CodeWarrior development environment for rapid and secure development of applications for motor control on Kinetis MCU’s

phyTEC

  • Use of imaging development kit based on i.MX6 platform from Freescale for visualization of generated layout

TECHNICAL SOLUTION




This system is composed of several hardware components that aim to fulfill the functionalities of this demo.




The imaging algorithms used in this demo are custom designed and implemented by Seavus Embedded R&D development team. The overall implementation is optimized for use on embedded systems and is utilizing parallel processing of most of the steps used to process the images captured from the cameras.

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