"Bringing Computer Vision to the Consumer," a Keynote Presentation from Dyson

MAY 2015

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Bringing vision to the consumer

WHO AM I ?

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Dr. Mike Aldred – Electronics Category Lead

Responsible for the delivery of robot electronics

algorithms, software, firmware, hardware, sensing

THIS PRESENTATION

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Share some lessons we learned taking a cutting

edge, vision based, technology from academia to the

mass market

Will be focused around 360eye

No maths and equations

Not going to reveal Dyson secrets

DYSON

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Dyson sell 8 million products worldwide each year

Machines are sold in 72 countries

90% of products are sold outside of the UK

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Dyson products

If a product is going to be successful it needs to

Solve a real problem

Be Better

Be Different

Easy = boring!

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Start as a scientist end as an engineer

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Idea generation – think differently

At the start of a project be broad minded

Challenge received wisdom

Try something which could obviously never work

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Idea generation – 360eye aspirational specification

For a robot to work it has to perform

better than a human

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Idea generation – why vision ?

To be methodical the robot needs to be able to

navigate its environment

Vision provides a quantity and richness of

information

Vision is an enabling technology which opens

up greater future prospects

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Idea generation – robot SLAM

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Idea generation – MonoSLAM

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Idea generation – why Panoramic vision ?

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Idea generation

Product development

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Product development – Think about the customer

Vision and robotics are enabling

technologies, they are not products in

themselves

Always retain a focus on what function the

product is providing to the customer

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Product development - simulation

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Simulation is a fantastic tool to develop an

idea

A simulator is only as good as the effort that

has been put into its development

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Product development – Information optimisation

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TEST, TEST, TEst

Product development – test, test, test

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Product development – test in the real world

Vision is so effective as a sensor because

images contain a lot of info

However images can contain a huge variety of

contents

To produce a mass market product you need to

be confident it is going to work robustly in the

real world and that means testing in the real

world in a huge variety of situations

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Product development – test in the real world

The best test environment is the real

world

On 360eye we ran trials in real homes

for more than 8 years

Over the development phase we ran

more than 50,000 home trial runs

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Product development – Real world issues with panoramic SLAM

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Product development – Image quality

Light room

Dark room

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Product development – Image quality

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Product development – the real world will exercise the product

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Summary

30% idea generation 10% development

60% testing

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“An inventor’s path is chorused with groans, riddled with fist-banging and punctuated by head scratches. Stumbling upon the next great invention in an “ah-ha!” moment is a myth. It

is only by learning from mistakes that progress is made”

James Dyson

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Appendix

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Product development – post mortem analysis

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