Implementation and Performance Analysis of an Industrial Robot’s Vision System Based on Cloud Vision Services

With its fast advancements, Cloud Computing opens many opportunities for research in various applications from the robotics field. In our paper, we further explore the prospect of integrating Cloud AI object recognition services into an industrial robotics sorting task. Starting from our previously implemented solution on a digital twin, we are now putting our proposed architecture to the test in the real world, on an industrial robot, where factors such as illumination, shadows, different coloring and textures of the materials influence the performance of the vision system. We compare the results of our suggested method with the ones from an industrial machine vision software, obtaining promising performance, opening additional application perspectives in the robotics field as Cloud and AI technology continuously improves.