Amazon Robotic Challenge 2017- Nagoya, Japan

About the competition:

The competition aims at fully automating the process of filling in the order of the client which happens in Amazon warehouses.

It consits of two main tasks: picking and stowing known and unknown items from a storage system into Amazon boxes and viseversa.

Each team is free to use any robotic system it finds propriate and each team should design it's own storage system respecting some limitations in dimentions and cost.

Team:

Our team UJIROBINLAB from the Univesity of James I was selected to compete with 15 other teams from universities and companies from all over the world.

Tasks:

1. Design and implementation of the storage system and the 3 axes robot that forms the interface between the storage system and the robot (extract the drawers one by one and puts them in an almost fully accessible position by the vision system and the dual arm robot while picking). This task includes designing and implementing the electronic circuits, drivers, pneumatic circuits, mechanics, low level programs and ROS interface to be used by the main workstation.
2. Modify the original gripper of the robot by designing new fingers for pinching plastic bags or cloth like objects and designing the electronics for the vacuum gripper.

Publication:

A.P. del Pobil, M. Kassawat, A. J. Duran, M.A. Arias, N. Nechyporenko, A. Mallick, E. Cervera, D. Subedi, I. Vasilev, D. Cardin, E. Sansebastiano, E. Martinez-Martin, A. Morales, G.A. Casañ, A. Arenal, B. Goriatcheff, C. Rubert and G. Recatala, 2017, "UJI RobInLab's Approach to the Amazon Robotics Challenge 2017", in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems (MFI 2017), Daegu, Korea. pp. 318-323.