Thinking Outside the Boxes: Robotic Pallet-Stacking Challenge Aims to Create an Automation Benchmark for Industry: Scientific American
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Automation can help, but the complexity of the task makes it difficult to compare the efficiencies of various robotic palletizing approaches. So a consortium of concerned parties is throwing the automated pallet-building challenge to university teams, who can explore the problem in a safe, low-cost virtual world. The Virtual Manufacturing Automation Competition, co-sponsored by the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), the Georgia Institute of Technology and the electrical engineering association IEEE, aims to create standards for robotic stacking and packing approaches by which automated palletizers can be assessed.
Competing teams will design automated protocols for use on a simulated, computer-generated shop floor, which uses a video game engine as its backbone. The simulated environment comes complete with robot arms for lifting packages off a conveyor belt and placing them on pallets. With up to three robot arms, each working on up to three pallets at once, teams will have to fill an order of different-size boxes as quickly as possible.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=robot-box-stacking&sc=CAT_T...
Competing teams will design automated protocols for use on a simulated, computer-generated shop floor, which uses a video game engine as its backbone. The simulated environment comes complete with robot arms for lifting packages off a conveyor belt and placing them on pallets. With up to three robot arms, each working on up to three pallets at once, teams will have to fill an order of different-size boxes as quickly as possible.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=robot-box-stacking&sc=CAT_T...
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