{"id":6715,"date":"2025-06-03T07:29:51","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T07:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lcm.web-email.at\/blog\/automatic-plugging\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T11:22:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T11:22:42","slug":"automatic-plugging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lcm.web-email.at\/en\/automatic-plugging\/","title":{"rendered":"Automated plug-in"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"wp-block-group section-post has-background\" style=\"background-color:#f3f3f4;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40)\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-3ee1e8e79d230af27302b3205f21d846\" style=\"color:#009ef3\">Automated plug-in<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns section-post-wrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls poster=\"https:\/\/lcm.web-email.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Vorschaubld_Automatisiertes-Stecken.png\" src=\"https:\/\/lcm.web-email.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Video_Projekt_Automatic-Plugging.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The particular challenge in this task does not lie in detecting the socket, but in determining its exact position and orientation in order to automatically guide the plug into the socket.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Using a digital twin including a camera plug-in, the entire process can be checked in advance and switched over to the real system (or operated in parallel) at the touch of a button using the ROS middleware. <\/p>\n\n\n\t<section  class=\"section-detail-partner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3>Project partner<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"list-partners\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.keba.com\/de\/home\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"182\" height=\"91\" src=\"https:\/\/lcm.web-email.at\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Logo_Keba-182x91.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail_182x182 size-thumbnail_182x182\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lcm.web-email.at\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Logo_Keba-182x91.png 182w, https:\/\/lcm.web-email.at\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Logo_Keba-238x119.png 238w, https:\/\/lcm.web-email.at\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Logo_Keba-166x83.png 166w, https:\/\/lcm.web-email.at\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Logo_Keba-110x55.png 110w, 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(ANN)<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li>Feature Extraction<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li>Pose Estimation<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2> \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<mark>Advantages for customers<\/mark>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"block-desc\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li>Robust and reliable object detection<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li>Large viewing area<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li>Realizable with RealSense camera<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li>Independent of the robot or camera supplier<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" 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