Abstract The Amazon Robotics Challenge (ARC) is a robotics competition aimed to advance warehouse automation. One of the engineering challenges is making the system robust to …
Part handling in warehouse automation is challenging if a large variety of items must be accommodated and items are stored in unordered piles. To foster research in this domain …
Robotic picking from cluttered bins is a demanding task, for which Amazon Robotics holds challenges. The 2017 Amazon Robotics Challenge (ARC) required stowing items into a …
Grasping unknown objects in unstructured environments is one of the most challenging and demanding tasks for robotic bin picking systems. Developing a holistic approach is crucial to …
International competitions have fostered innovation in fields such as artificial intelligence, robotic manipulation, and computer vision, and incited teams to push the state of the art. In …
This paper describes Team Delft's robot winning the Amazon Robotics Challenge 2016. The competition involves automating pick and place operations in semistructured environments …
D Morrison, AW Tow, M Mctaggart… - … on robotics and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Amazon Robotics Challenge enlisted sixteen teams to each design a pick-and-place robot for autonomous warehousing, addressing development in robotic vision and …
Accurate object classification and position estimation is a crucial part of executing autonomous pick-and-place operations by a robot and can be realized using RGB-D …
FJ Chu, R Xu, PA Vela - IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter presents a deep learning framework to predict the affordances of object parts for robotic manipulation. The framework segments affordance maps by jointly detecting and …