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Abstract

The present disclosure concerns a method and a system for separating and singulating articles, such as postal parcels or small packages, said system comprising a feeding conveyor having a receiving end and a delivery end, and a divider for separating the bulk of postal articles arriving on the feeding conveyor into a plurality of parallel article streams on the feeding conveyor and forwarding said article streams in a first conveying direction from said receiving end to said delivery end; a takeaway conveyor having a second conveying direction, which is substantially different from said first conveying direction, and where said takeaway conveyor at its upstream end is abutted by the delivery end of said feeding conveyor; a plurality of gantry robots are provided across the delivery end of the feeding conveyor in such a way that each robot is handling each their article stream on the feeding conveyor and that the robots are adapted to picking an article from each their article stream on the feeding conveyor and placing said picked article on the takeaway conveyor; a vision system adapted to capturing image data of the articles on the feeding conveyor, and a robotic controller comprising a data processing unit for using said image data to identify an article to be singulated by one of the robots and for providing control inputs to the robots.

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