Bluewhale Events

Blue Whale Universal Chassis Chitu AGV Achieves Application Extension

Yangoogle — Sat, 21 Mar 2020 07:18:30 GMT

2020.03.21
Chitu is a ROS-based intelligent mobile AGV developed by the Blue Whale robot. Chitu uses automatic driving technology, which is easy to use, stable and reliable, and flexible in movement.

Chitu has achieved multi-scenario application expansion in 2019, accelerating the strategic layout of the Blue Whale Universal Chassis in the autonomous mobile robot market, and implementing scenarios such as automatic delivery of goods, inspection patrols, mobile killing, and restaurant delivery.

Automatic disinfection and sterilization scene

Security patrol scene

Central delivery meal delivery scene

Office document express delivery scene

Factory environment logistics distribution scenario

The use of Chitu is also very simple. First, remotely control the Chitu robot to walk through the working environment and let the robot remember the surrounding environment. The robot will automatically create a map of its surroundings. The client draws the route that the user wants the robot to walk on the map created by the robot. After clicking start, the robot can start moving automatically.

Blue Whale Intelligent Robot participates in the International Applied Technology Trade Fair

Yangoogle — Mon, 17 Dec 2018 07:34:55 GMT

2018.12.17

The China International Applied Technology Trade Fair opened on December 10, 2018 at the Guangzhou Canton Fair. Blue Whale Intelligent Robot (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. carries exhibits from the company, including “Galileo Vision Navigation Box”, “ROS Hub Motor Drive” and “Patrol Tank Car”.

The above picture shows the blue whale intelligent robot booth. The exhibition area is 18 square meters. As the expert enterprise in the field of robotic navigation in this exhibition, the blue whale intelligent robot has been inquired by many enterprises and reached the cooperation intention.
Blue Whale Intelligence also presented a number of related companies based on the Galileo Visual Navigation system.

Unmanned AGV in the urban beauty production base

Unmanned plant protection robot of Nanjing Agricultural University

Unmanned retail of Shenlan Technology
Blue Whale Intelligent Robot has application cases in AGV, unmanned forklift, unmanned distribution, new retail, cleaning equipment, smart agriculture, etc. It is believed that the robots you use will have the core technology of Blue Whale in the future.

Blue Whale Robot Debuts at the High-Tech Fair - Galileo Visual Navigation won the Excellent Product Award from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology

Yangoogle — Wed, 28 Nov 2018 12:34:09 GMT

2018.11.28
China International Hi-Tech Fair was grandly opened on November 14th of this month. The conference will be held in China’s entrepreneurial capital, the high-tech enterprises gathered in the Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center.

The China International Hi-Tech Fair is jointly organized by the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the State Intellectual Property Office, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and the Shenzhen Municipal People’s Government. It is held annually in Shenzhen. At present, China’s largest and most influential technology exhibitions are known as the “China Science and Technology Exhibition”.

As an expert solution provider in the field of SLAM, Blue Whale Intelligent Robot (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. brought two high-tech new products to the conference. The company booth is located at No. 4C32 of Hall 4 (Industrial and Information Technology Exhibition Hall).

One of the exhibits is the “Galileo Vision Navigation System”, a vision-based international leading navigation algorithm that allows the system to interface with AGVs, forklifts, sweepers, and various mobile robots. Consumer-grade prices, millimeter-level positioning accuracy. Let “Galileo” become a close partner with many industry terminal businesses.

The other one is “Chitu Visual Navigation AGV”. The 50kg load, combined with cutting-edge visual navigation technology, supports the secondary development of ROS, making “Chitu” a cost-effective universal trackless AGV, which will take you a sneak peek.

The exhibits of this industry were judged by the experts of the High-Tech Fair. In this industry, our Galileo visual navigation system won the Excellent Product Award from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. It shows the leading position of our Galileo visual navigation system in the field of robotic autonomous mobile and the recognition of experts.

Xiaoqiang users won the first prize in the International Makers Competition!

Yangoogle — Sat, 08 Sep 2018 07:04:19 GMT

2017.10.15
The International Youth Makeup Marathon is a nationalized event that encourages college students to innovate and start a business. Xiaoqiang users have purchased our Xiaoqiang robot development platform because of Qiangqiang’s powerful computing performance and tutorial cases, and through the unremitting efforts, realized the scene of Xiaoqiang robot. Applying to the practice of innovation, it has achieved good results. It has received unanimous praise from the judges and finally won the first prize of this competition. Xiaoqiang is a helper. Xiaoqiang is committed to helping you on your research path. With one strength, grow with you, you can make Xiaoqiang the perfect partner in your mind, depending on your creativity!

Galileo visual navigation system successfully applied to forklift positioning scene

Yangoogle — Sat, 08 Sep 2018 06:51:23 GMT

2017.10.07
The Galileo visual navigation system of the Blue Whale Intelligent Robot is successfully applied in the warehouse of a certain enterprise in Dongguan. The Galileo visual navigation system can obtain the real-time positioning of the forklift in the factory through a single camera. The positioning information is summarized and used in the ERP system of the company’s factory. Statistics and overall scheduling, this application marks the official entry of the Blue Whale Galileo visual navigation system into the field of industrial logistics, and has achieved success.

The factory warehouse in this scene has a total of 6 workshops, more than 10,000 square meters. After the forklift is equipped with the Galileo visual navigation system, real-time positioning can be obtained, and the location is displayed on the map, and the positioning system does not require the forklift to have the odometer and other information uploaded. Full control of the system independent of the forklift, so the independence of the system facilitates the installation and docking of the system, simplifying the application process and reducing the hardware threshold.

The visual positioning solution is finally complete

Yangoogle — Fri, 07 Sep 2018 08:26:18 GMT

2016.3.28
The visual positioning solution is finally complete
Visual positioning and navigation algorithms are the focus of current robot research, and they are also the hotspots that everyone is studying. In actual use scenarios, the need for visual positioning is also large. However, there has been no mature visual positioning navigation solution in China. Today we finally succeeded in realizing a solution for visual positioning.

Below is a video of our test comparing the visual positioning algorithm with the general method of using the gyroscope inertial positioning.

The test environment is Xiaoqiang (http://www.bwbot.org/zh-cn/content/xiaoqiang), a comprehensive development platform for ROS we developed. We use remote control to let Xiaoqiang repeat a square track with a length of about 1mX2m on the ground. Xiaoqiang also returns the coordinates calculated by the two groups according to Xiaoqiang’s gyroscope and camera. The above video is the position coordinates of Xiaoqiang displayed in real time on the computer. The red line represents the coordinates determined by the visual positioning algorithm, and the green line represents the small strong position coordinates determined from the gyroscope and motor encoder data. It can be seen that the results obtained by the first two methods are basically the same. As the number of turns around the gyroscope increases, the error of the gyroscope increases, but the coordinates calculated by the visual positioning do not change. This is also the advantage of a visual positioning algorithm.

Many of today’s restaurant delivery robots still use electromagnetic or mechanical rails to position the robot. Such an approach not only has a large cost to be retrofitted, but also has a high maintenance cost, and has a great influence on the overall decoration of the restaurant. With the visual positioning algorithm, no rails are needed to aid positioning. The robot has an eye that can really be used. The same industrial AGV robot can also provide more precise coordinates to the robot by means of visual positioning.

Update:
After a long period of test development, we have developed a stable and complete visual navigation system. That is, the Galileo visual navigation system. More detailed information can be found here (http://www.bwbot.org/zh-hans/content/galileo).

Introduction to Galileo system documentation (https://galileo-servicebot-doc.bwbot.org/)

The Galileo Vision Navigation System is a robotic positioning and motion control system that incorporates multiple sensors and is guided by visual navigation. The positioning and navigation functions of the robot can be realized by loading the system. It is suitable for various application scenarios such as automatic inspection robot industry AGV, service robot and so on.

Below is an action video that includes creating a map and saving the map. More details can be found on the Galileo system related pages.

The visual navigation algorithm was first applied to the production environment.

Yangoogle — Fri, 07 Sep 2018 06:29:52 GMT

2016.7.19
Recently received a robot order from the user. The user needs to make an exhibition robot and put it in his showroom. The entire exhibition hall is about 30 meters long, and the products of the user exhibition are arranged in turn on the side of the exhibition hall. Users need robots to stop at the products of each exhibition and introduce the product. At present, this user’s robot uses a tracking method, which puts a black route on the floor and indicates the first few products at that time. However, the user is very dissatisfied with these black lines and feels that the atmosphere of the entire exhibition hall is destroyed.

This situation must use our visual positioning system. However, our visual positioning system is not yet mature, and the program can be accurately and stably operated. But since users have such a demand, they can only try it.

The video above is a visual display of visual navigation. It can be seen that the visual positioning is highly accurate and works very stable. The program sets the car to run in the same direction as the black line. No matter how humans interfere, the car can return to its original direction. This is not possible with inertial navigation using gyroscopes and encoders. Inertial Navigation Once the wheels slip, the positioning creates an unrepairable error.

Above is a broader test video. So far, Xiaoqiang’s visual navigation system has finally been used in the production environment.

Intelligent robot storage management system case

Yangoogle — Fri, 07 Sep 2018 06:00:47 GMT

2016.9.3
In the production process of the factory, it is often difficult to manage the materials. For example, due to the lack of timely preparation of materials, the production is delayed. Improper material management leads to unnecessary losses. There are no clear material records that result in unclear costing and so on. In order to solve these problems, we have developed a management system for a clothing company in Dongguan.
The main structure of the system is shown below:

Ou Meng material management system structure diagram
Material management personnel at the system plant can easily manage and count materials. The previous production process was further standardized and systemized to reduce the losses caused by improper operations. With this management system, the storage system can be truly converted into a logistics system for efficient and precise production.
Management system interface:

Management system hardware:

Visual inspection robot released

Yangoogle — Fri, 07 Sep 2018 03:24:15 GMT

2016.10.1
A patrol robot is a robot that patrols a specific site like a security guard. The general inspection robot can only be operated by remote control. After adopting the visual navigation technology, the inspection robot can automatically perform inspection on the set route, eliminating the manpower for remote control and monitoring.

Visual inspection robot test video
The above video is a patrol robot developed using visual navigation technology. The robot moves according to the inspection route set by the software.
The left side of the video is the image captured by the camera in real time, and the right side is the real-time position display of the car in the visual map. The green dots in the image represent obstacle feature points. The green square is the current location of the car. The red curve is the target inspection route for the car. It can be seen that the inspection robot can stably move along the red curve.

The operation of the software is also very convenient. After creating a map with specialized software, mark the specific route you want to patrol on the map. Then click the Start Patrol button to start the automatic inspection.

Indoor delivery robot, red rabbit, debut

Yangoogle — Fri, 07 Sep 2018 03:13:27 GMT

2016.10.18
After a long period of development, our indoor delivery robot Red Rabbit finally has to meet with you at the high-tech fair. Red rabbits use visual navigation technology. The image information collected by the camera is processed to return to the current position of the machine. With specially developed control software, users can easily set up the red rabbit delivery line. The red rabbit is easy to use and stable, and is very suitable for indoor delivery applications.

Red rabbit rendering

Red Rabbit Software Control Interface

Xiaoqiang mini released

Yangoogle — Fri, 07 Sep 2018 03:03:10 GMT

2017.3.21
Xiaoqiang’s ROS development platform, which has been well received by everyone, ushered in its own little brother, Xiaoqiang mini.

The Xiaoqiang mini is smaller in size and uses a lower performance processor, which is suitable for use scenarios without a lot of calculations. The specific parameters are configured as follows:

Customers who need it, please click on the website to purchase.

Xiaoqiang ROS robot development platform goes abroad

Yangoogle — Fri, 07 Sep 2018 02:44:41 GMT

2017.4.10
Xiaoqiang ROS platform has finally gone abroad to the world! Xiaoqiang has provided China’s excellent development platform for ROS developers. At present, Xiaoqiang has been sold to the United States, Singapore, Indonesia, Finland, United Arab Emirates and other countries, and has been loved by consumers. Xiaoqiang Development Platform is China’s first domestic ROS development platform. After the iteration of the update, powerful features have evolved. Xiaoqiang’s future is destined to be even stronger!

The first version of Xiaoqiang was like this:

This is now the case:

Xiaoqiang hopes to grow with you, what will be the future Xiaoqiang? What you said!

Blue Whale ROS Operating System (XQOS) released

Yangoogle — Fri, 07 Sep 2018 02:25:43 GMT

2017.5.13
Blue Whale ROS is a ROS system image created by Blue Whale Intelligent Robotics based on Ubuntu ROS. It contains the ROS system and some commonly used ROS packages. Ideal for ROS learning and developers. After the system is installed, you do not need to install and configure ROS, you can use it directly. Blue Whale ROS is also a system image of Xiaoqiang, which can be installed directly on Xiaoqiang.

XQOS system desktop screenshot
The Blue Whale ROS image can be installed on Xiaoqiang. We have released different versions of the system according to different hardware platforms. It is convenient for everyone to reinstall themselves after a problem occurs in the system.
Based on the general ROS, we also integrate some very convenient functions. Such as vnc service, remote assistance, system self-test, etc.
Hope everyone likes it.

Blue Whale Intelligence won the third prize of advanced manufacturing in Shenzhen Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition

Yangoogle — Fri, 07 Sep 2018 02:21:48 GMT

2017.8.1
In this year’s Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, after fierce competition, we won the third prize in the advanced manufacturing industry. This award is an affirmation of our work and achievements. We will continue to create brilliance.

Third Prize for Advanced Manufacturing of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition

Galileo navigation system debut at the World Robotics Congress

Yangoogle — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 10:01:00 GMT

2017.8.23
The first World Robot Conference was jointly organized by the China Association for Science and Technology, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and the Beijing Municipal People’s Government. It is aimed at implementing the spirit of the internship of General Secretary Jin Ping at the 2014 Academician Conference. Promote innovation-driven development strategy and realize the robot industry event that spans the development of China’s robotics technology and industry. In this year’s robotics conference, the Galileo navigation system that we have studied over a year has finally made its debut!

The Galileo visual navigation system is a complete navigation solution based on visual navigation, path planning, obstacle avoidance, and environmental recognition. Can be used in indoor service robots, industrial AGV, outdoor patrol and other application scenarios. This system does not require users to have a deep understanding of ROS, all functions are exposed to users through the RESTFUL API, the actual development and use are very convenient.
Learn more (http://www.bwbot.org/content/galileo)

ROS wheel motor drive release

Yangoogle — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 09:44:39 GMT

2017.11.22
The hub motor is a new type of motor that combines a wheel and a motor. It is widely used in electric vehicles to balance the car. Due to its excellent sporting performance and high cost performance, we decided to develop a ROS drive for a hub motor.

The general drive only provides a simple open loop speed control function. Our drives offer closed loop speed control with control accuracy of less than 1%. The maximum power is 1080W (single 540W). Operating voltage is 12V to 36V (supports lithium battery). Especially at low speeds, our performance far exceeds other drives on the market. Not only that, we also offer the ROS driver for this drive. This allows you to directly control the motor motion in the ROS. At the same time, the drive also provides 9-axis gyroscope data and odometer data. Convenient to continue to develop ROS-related navigation programs. And this driver can be equipped with infrared sensor and ultrasonic sensor. Really powerful and full-featured, it is the first choice for robot development.

Taobao link:https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=a1z10.1-c.w4004-11026595866.8.56528335UBc6Na&id=559950579276

Xiaoqiang and ifm debut at Shanghai International Logistics Exhibition

Yangoogle — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 09:38:10 GMT

2017.10.31

Shanghai International Logistics Exhibition is a grand event with great influence in the international logistics robot industry. Exhibitors include large logistics companies from around the world. Xiaoqiang and ifm made their debut at this year’s show!
The Xiaoqiang who participated in the exhibition carried our Galileo visual navigation system. First, move through the remote control Xiaoqiang, let Xiaoqiang record the surrounding environment and establish an environmental map. Then draw the route it wants to move through our software in the map it creates. After everything is set up, Xiaoqiang can follow the marked route. At the same time, the ifm depth vision sensor is used to tell the Galileo system to the surrounding environment. Based on this information, the system controls Xiaoqiang to avoid obstacles around him. Even if there are many pedestrians around, it has no effect on our robotic actions.

Blue Whale Robot participates in the 2020 High-tech Fair

Yangoogle — Fri, 27 Nov 2020 07:37:19 GMT

2020.11.27

The China International High-tech Fair (referred to as the China High-tech Fair), held in Shenzhen every year, is currently the largest and most influential science and technology exhibition in China, and is known as the “China’s No. 1 Science and Technology Exhibition”.
All participating companies in this year’s Hi-Tech Fair are high-tech companies that have withstood the test of the epidemic and maintained a steady growth trend.
Blue Whale Intelligent Robot (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. exhibited two products, “Galileo Navigation System” and “Chitu Trackless AGV”, both of which received widespread attention. The Galileo visual navigation system is a navigation product aimed at the upgrading of traditional robot companies. It can enable robots to realize the function of trackless navigation and obstacle avoidance. It is a weapon for the upgrading and transformation of traditional companies. The navigation system uses the most advanced monocular vision navigation technology to maximize the cost-effectiveness and facilitate the commercialization of the robot industry.
Chitu trackless AGV uses Galileo vision navigation technology, which can be modularized for different scenarios. It is a universal robot chassis.
Let’s take a look at the booth of the Blue Whale Intelligent Robot!

The booth area is 18 square meters, and it is located diagonally opposite the central booth. The exhibition site is crowded with people, and the visitors are actively inquiring, which is overwhelming.

This is a food delivery robot that uses the Galileo navigation system of the Blue Whale intelligent robot. It has been promoted in batches and is favored by restaurants everywhere.
The following is the demeanor of the blue whale intelligent robot exhibiting team. We will work harder to develop and promote the core technology of robots and make further contributions to the commercial application of the robot industry. Thanks for your attention and support!

The blue whale intelligent robot gets the attention of the School of Physics of Jilin University

Yangoogle — Fri, 18 Jun 2021 02:40:04 GMT

2021.5.1

Blue Whale Intelligent Robot (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. (www.bwbot.org) was established in 2015, referred to as Blue Whale Intelligence (BWBOT). It has many years of research and development experience in the field of robotics. Blue Whale Intelligence relies on its technical advantages in the field of robot visual navigation , Has successively won the Shenzhen Maker Fund, the third prize of the Shenzhen Innovation Competition, and has now passed the national high-tech enterprise certification.

Blue Whale Intelligence has provided stable and reliable solutions for dozens of robot-related companies. Successfully applied to products such as sweepers, service robots, security robots, industrial AGVs and unmanned forklifts. Blue Whale Intelligence will help more companies that need autonomous mobile solutions to launch more intelligent, practical, safe and stable robot products, and look forward to your cooperation!

Meng Wenzhuo, secretary of the School of Physics of Jilin University and his party visited some alumni in Shenzhen.

Sun Wei (Level 98), Secretary General of Physics Branch of Jilin University Shenzhen Alumni Association, visited the company.

The official account of the School of Physics of Jilin University reports on our company and is included in alumni companies.

Blue Whale Intelligent Robot successfully obtained the national high-tech enterprise certification

Yangoogle — Fri, 18 Jun 2021 02:20:46 GMT

2021.1.27

The Blue Whale Intelligent Robot bucked the trend during the epidemic. Our company’s “Galileo” visual navigation system was successfully applied in batches of killing, food delivery and other scenes, and has been recognized by the market. In the past three years, Blue Whale Intelligent has relied on autonomous robots With continuous breakthroughs and innovations in the technical advantages of the mobile field, the market and application scenarios have been steadily expanded, and it has been successfully selected in the national high-tech enterprise certification in 2020.

In the future, Blue Whale will also go hand in hand with many robot brother companies, work hard to serve robot manufacturers, provide more robot manufacturers with high-quality, reliable, and inexpensive navigation systems, and make more contributions to the advancement of robot intelligent mobile functions. If you are still Troubled by the robot’s autonomous mobile technology, I want to quickly develop a robot product with perfect functions, reliable operation, and low price. If you get the robot market, Blue Whale can give you a better choice, and look forward to your cooperation!