%0 Conference Paper %1 VMAC2012 %A Demisse, G. %A Mihalyi, R. %A Okal, B. %A Poudel, D. %A Schauer, J. %A Nüchter, A. %B Virtual Manufacturing Automation (VMAC '12) Workshop at IEEE International Conference Robotics and Automation, ICRA %C St. Paul, MN, USA %D 2012 %K imported %T Mixed Palletizing and Task Completion for Virtual Warehouses %U https://robotik.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/telematics/download/vmac2012.pdf %X Palletizing, or packing rectangular boxes of various sizes onto pallets, is a frequently encountered task in many commercial scenarios, e.g., shipment of goods. An extension of this problem is the automated placement of boxes on pallets, henceforth task completion, by means of industrial robot arms. The palletizing and task completion problems are treated in the context of the IEEE ICRA 2012 Virtual Manufacturing Automation Competition. We approach the palletizing challenge by a winner-takes-all strategy, where multiple heuristics are evaluated against the given datasets. Our results show a performance comparable to that of the commercial software benchmark from the previous competitions. We solve task completion in USARSim by picking boxes and placing them on a pallet. Our inverse kinematics algorithm consists of a geometric and numeric component.

@inproceedings{VMAC2012, abstract = {Palletizing, or packing rectangular boxes of various sizes onto pallets, is a frequently encountered task in many commercial scenarios, e.g., shipment of goods. An extension of this problem is the automated placement of boxes on pallets, henceforth task completion, by means of industrial robot arms. The palletizing and task completion problems are treated in the context of the IEEE ICRA 2012 Virtual Manufacturing Automation Competition. We approach the palletizing challenge by a winner-takes-all strategy, where multiple heuristics are evaluated against the given datasets. Our results show a performance comparable to that of the commercial software benchmark from the previous competitions. We solve task completion in USARSim by picking boxes and placing them on a pallet. Our inverse kinematics algorithm consists of a geometric and numeric component. }, added-at = {2017-09-19T13:40:53.000+0200}, address = {St. Paul, MN, USA}, author = {Demisse, G. and Mihalyi, R. and Okal, B. and Poudel, D. and Schauer, J. and N{\"u}chter, A.}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2a60c6398847edfc3df3ff7d007c95840/nuechter76}, booktitle = {Virtual Manufacturing Automation (VMAC '12) Workshop at IEEE International Conference Robotics and Automation, ICRA}, interhash = {4713161c2b0054d6b0c3b0d839554268}, intrahash = {a60c6398847edfc3df3ff7d007c95840}, keywords = {imported}, month = May, timestamp = {2017-09-29T16:01:21.000+0200}, title = {Mixed Palletizing and Task Completion for Virtual Warehouses}, url = {https://robotik.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/telematics/download/vmac2012.pdf}, year = 2012 }