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Toward resilient manipulation of food products: Analysis of 6D-pose estimation at the Future Convenience Store Challenge 2022
Document Type
Conference
Source
2023 IEEE 19th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE) Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), 2023 IEEE 19th International Conference on. :1-6 Aug, 2023
Subject
Robotics and Control Systems
Estimation error
Technological innovation
Service robots
Transfer learning
Lighting
Grasping
Packaging
Language
ISSN
2161-8089
Abstract
Service robots, the class of robots that are designed to assist humans in their daily lives, are needed in the retail industry to compensate for the labor shortage. To foster innovation, the Future Convenience Store Challenge was created, where robotic systems for the manipulation of food products are tasked to dispose of expired products and replenish the shelves. We, as team NAIST-RITS-Panasonic, have developed a mobile manipulator with which we have obtained 1st place in the past three editions of the challenge. In the last edition, we manipulated the five types of items without fiducial markers or customized packaging using a suction-based end effector. In this paper, we evaluate the accuracy of the $6\mathrm{D}$ -pose estimation as well as its effect on the grasping success rate by 1) comparing the $6\mathrm{D}$ -pose estimation results with the ground truth, and 2) evaluating the grasping success rate with the estimated pose during and after the competition. The results show that the $6\mathrm{D}$ -pose estimation error has a significant effect on the grasping success rate.