Amazon Picking Challenge 2015
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In May 2015, our Team RBO won a prestigious international robotics challenge, the Amazon Picking Challenge. This challenge aims to solve one of the last problems in warehouse automation: identifying and grasping objects from a warehouse shelf.
The goal of the competition was to develop a robotic system with the ability to fulfill a fictitious order by autonomously picking the ordered items from a shelf. The competition posed a set of challenging problems: the robot had to visually perceive and grasp a wide variety of objects; the exact position in each bin of the shelf was not known beforehand; and the robot had to act fully autonomously, without any human intervention being allowed.
Our robot was able to win the competition by picking 10 out of 12 objects, outperforming 25 teams from Europe, USA and Asia, amongst them teams from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), UC Berkeley as well as many robotics companies.
Video Material
Official summary video by Amazon: http://www.amazonpickingchallenge.org/
Our run, sped by 4x: https://youtu.be/DuFtwpxQnFI
Our run, original speed: https://youtu.be/UrpMfdj-Mpc
Video showing the perception algorithm running on our robot:https://youtu.be/TsVUQtRNIts
Interview with Sebastian at the Deutscher Logistik Kongress (in German): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5yjIw3D9JQ
Press Coverage
International (english)
Engadget: http://www.engadget.com/2015/06/01/amazon-picking-challenge-winner/
RoboHub: http://robohub.org/team-rbo-from-berlin-wins-amazon-picking-challenge-convincingly/
Slashdot: http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/15/06/02/2355212/building-amazon-a-better-warehouse-robot
Amazon watchblog: https://www.amazon-watchblog.de/technik/271-tu-berlin-picking-challenge-amazon.html
The Economist: http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21653599-how-combine-man-and-machine-without-creating-cyborg-handy-collaborator
Germany
Wirtschaftswoche: http://www.wiwo.de/unternehmen/handel/amazon-roboter-veraendern-die-zukunft-des-onlinehandels/11843744.html
Heise online: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Robotik-Team-der-TU-Berlin-gewinnt-Amazons-Picking-Challenge-2677698.html
Relevant Publications
Clemens Eppner, Sebastian Höfer, Rico Jonschkowski, Roberto Martín-Martín, Arne Sieverling, Vincent Wall and Oliver Brock. Four aspects of building robotic systems: lessons from the Amazon Picking Challenge 2015. Autonomous Robots. Springer US 42(7):1459–1475, 2018.
Clemens Eppner, Sebastian Höfer, Rico Jonschkowski, Roberto Martín-Martín, Arne Sieverling, Vincent Wall and Oliver Brock. Lessons from the Amazon Picking Challenge: Four Aspects of Robotic Systems Building. Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), 2016.
Rico Jonschkowski, Clemens Eppner, Sebastian Höfer, Roberto Martín-Martín, Oliver Brock. Probabilistic Multi-Class Segmentation for the Amazon Picking Challenge. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2016.
Rico Jonschkowski, Clemens Eppner, Sebastian Höfer, Roberto Martín-Martín, Oliver Brock. Probabilistic Multi-Class Segmentation for the Amazon Picking Challenge. Technical Report RBO-2016-01 , Department of Computer Engineering and Microelectronics, Technische Universität Berlin, 2016.
Nikolaus Correll, Kostas E. Bekris, Dmitry Berenson, Oliver Brock, Albert Causo, Kris Hauser, Kei Okada, Alberto Rodriguez, Joseph M. Romano, Peter R. Wurman. Lessons from the Amazon Picking Challenge. arXiv:1601.05484 [cs.RO]. 2016
Colin Rennie, Rahul Shome, Kostas E. Bekris, Alberto F. De Souza: A Dataset for Improved RGBD-based Object Detection and Pose Estimation for Warehouse Pick-and-Place.arXiv:1509.01277 [cs.CV]. 2016
Related Publications
2018
Four aspects of building robotic systems: lessons from the Amazon Picking Challenge 2015
Autonomous Robots, 42 (7) :1459–1475
Oktober 2018
Herausgeber: Springer US
Analysis and Observations From the First Amazon Picking Challenge
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 15 (1) :172-188
Januar 2018
2016
Probabilistic Multi-Class Segmentation for the Amazon Picking Challenge
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Seite 1-7
Oktober 2016
Lessons from the Amazon Picking Challenge: Four Aspects of Building Robotic Systems
Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems
Herausgeber: AnnArbor, Michigan
Juni 2016
Lessons from the Amazon Picking Challenge
ArXiv e-prints
2016