(HEADQUARTERS: MINATO-KU, TOKYO; CEO: RYOICHI NAWA; HEREINAFTER "ISID") AND ARAYA Inc. (HEADQUARTERS: MINATO-KU, TOKYO; CEO: RYOTA KANAI) HAVE FORMED A BUSINESS ALLIANCE TO PROVIDE A SERVICE TO SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF AUTOMATED CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY USING DEEP REINFORCEMENT LEARNING AND IMITATION LEARNING, WHICH ARE ELEMENTAL TECHNOLOGIES OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI). THE SERVICE WILL BE AVAILABLE FROM TODAY.

LEFT: SIMULATION MODEL DEVELOPMENT GUI IMAGE SCREEN RIGHT: SIMULATION EXECUTION SCREEN

This service will provide a series of services for construction equipment manufacturers who are working on automation development, including licensing and implementation support for the high-speed simulator "Vortex Studio", which has been adopted in many machine design fields, as well as development and implementation of AI algorithms that learn the movements of skilled workers by themselves. This is a series of services. This service will enable AI-based automatic operation simulation of complex and difficult-to-operate construction machinery, and will improve the efficiency of experiments and analysis work toward the automation of operations.

Overview of the service
This service provides a series of services including licensing, implementation support, and development/implementation of AI algorithms using Vortex Studio, a high-speed simulator for machine operations, as the execution environment. Vortex Studio is compatible with the interface of OpenAI Gym, a development kit for reinforcement learning algorithms, enabling the execution of deep reinforcement learning and imitation learning processes. The main service components are as follows

Execution environment: Vortex Studio
Service Description: Providing technical support services for advanced operation automation of construction machinery
Selection of machine learning application theme and development of application method
Design and construction of machine learning execution environment
Creation of Vortex simulator models and verification scene data for target machines
Generation of autonomous agents (artificial intelligence that takes optimal actions)
Analysis of the behavior of autonomous agents and feedback for practical use
Analysis of autonomous agent behavior and feedback for practical use

About Vortex Studio
Vortex Studio is a machine operation simulator software developed and provided by CM Labs Simulations (Headquarters: Montreal, Quebec, Canada).
Using computationally efficient algorithms, Vortex Studio is capable of high-speed simulation of operations including mechanical motion, cable deformation, and soil excavation. ISID started to handle Vortex Studio in 2017 and provides Vortex Studio and its application technologies as a distributor to support innovation of machine operation control in customer companies. and its technology to help our customers innovate in machine operation control.

Learn more about Vortex

Press Release (PDF)
ARAYA's Approach to Construction Machinery Automation (Autopilot)