ARMBench: An object-centric benchmark dataset for robotic manipulation

C Mitash, F Wang, S Lu, V Terhuja… - … on Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper introduces Amazon Robotic Manipulation Benchmark (ARMBench), a large-
scale, object-centric benchmark dataset for robotic manipulation in the context of a …

End-to-end learning of object grasp poses in the Amazon Robotics Challenge

E Matsumoto, M Saito, A Kume, J Tan - Advances on Robotic Item Picking …, 2020 - Springer
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 …

Nimbro picking: Versatile part handling for warehouse automation

M Schwarz, A Milan, C Lenz, A Munoz… - … on Robotics and …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Fast object learning and dual-arm coordination for cluttered stowing, picking, and packing

M Schwarz, C Lenz, GM García, S Koo… - … on Robotics and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

MetaGraspNetV2: All-in-one dataset enabling fast and reliable robotic bin picking via object relationship reasoning and dexterous grasping

M Gilles, Y Chen, EZ Zeng, Y Wu… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Standing on giant's shoulders: Newcomer's experience from the Amazon Robotics Challenge 2017

GA Garcia Ricardez, L El Hafi… - Advances on robotic item …, 2020 - Springer
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 …

Integrating different levels of automation: Lessons from winning the amazon robotics challenge 2016

CH Corbato, M Bharatheesha… - IEEE Transactions …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper describes Team Delft's robot winning the Amazon Robotics Challenge 2016. The
competition involves automating pick and place operations in semistructured environments …

Cartman: The low-cost cartesian manipulator that won the amazon robotics challenge

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 …

Deep learning-based object classification and position estimation pipeline for potential use in robotized pick-and-place operations

S Soltan, A Oleinikov, MF Demirci, A Shintemirov - Robotics, 2020 - mdpi.com
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 …

Learning affordance segmentation for real-world robotic manipulation via synthetic images

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 …