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Creating mobile robots which are able to find and manipulate objects in large environments is an active topic of research. These robots not only need to be capable of searching for specific objects but also to estimate their poses often…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Jascha Hellwig , Mark Baierl , Joao Carvalho , Julen Urain , Jan Peters

Visual object counting is a fundamental computer vision task in industrial inspection, where accurate, high-throughput inventory tracking and quality assurance are critical. Moreover, manufactured parts are often too light to reliably…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Corentin Dumery , Noa Etté , Aoxiang Fan , Ren Li , Jingyi Xu , Hieu Le , Pascal Fua

Scalable real-time assortment optimization has become essential in e-commerce operations due to the need for personalization and the availability of a large variety of items. While this can be done when there are simplistic assortment…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Theja Tulabandhula , Deeksha Sinha , Saketh Karra

The three-dimensional bin packing problem (3D-BPP) plays an important role in city logistics and manufacturing environments, due to its direct relevance to operational cost. Most existing literature have investigated the conventional…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Qiruyi Zuo , Xinglu Liu , Wai Kin Victor Chan

In logistics warehouse, since many objects are randomly stacked on shelves, it becomes difficult for a robot to safely extract one of the objects without other objects falling from the shelf. In previous works, a robot needed to extract the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-01 T. Motoda , D. Petit , W. Wan , K. Harada

The Amazon Picking Challenge (APC), held alongside the International Conference on Robotics and Automation in May 2015 in Seattle, challenged roboticists from academia and industry to demonstrate fully automated solutions to the problem of…

In this work we investigate the problem of order batching and picker routing in storage areas. These are labour and capital intensive problems, often responsible for a substantial share of warehouse operating costs. In particular, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-03 Cristiano Arbex Valle , John E Beasley , Alexandre Salles da Cunha

The rapid deployment of robotics technologies requires dedicated optimization algorithms to manage large fleets of autonomous agents. This paper supports robotic parts-to-picker operations in warehousing by optimizing order-workstation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Cynthia Barnhart , Alexandre Jacquillat , Alexandria Schmid

Bin packing is a well studied problem involved in many applications. The classical bin packing problem is about minimising the number of bins and ignores how the bins are utilised. We focus in this paper, on a variant of bin packing that is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-09-23 Hadrien Cambazard , Deepak Mehta , Barry O'Sullivan , Helmut Simonis

Warehouse automation plays a pivotal role in enhancing operational efficiency, minimizing costs, and improving resilience to workforce variability. While prior research has demonstrated the potential of machine learning (ML) models to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Shuai Li , Azarakhsh Keipour , Sicong Zhao , Srinath Rajagopalan , Charles Swan , Kostas E. Bekris

Intelligent manufacturing is becoming increasingly important due to the growing demand for maximizing productivity and flexibility while minimizing waste and lead times. This work investigates automated secondary robotic food packaging…

Online 3D Bin Packing Problem (3D-BPP) has widespread applications in industrial automation. Existing methods usually solve the problem with limited resolution of spatial discretization, and/or cannot deal with complex practical constraints…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Hang Zhao , Juzhan Xu , Kexiong Yu , Ruizhen Hu , Chenyang Zhu , Bo Du , Kai Xu

Packing a given sequence of items into as few bins as possible in an online fashion is a widely studied problem. We improve lower bounds for packing boxes into bins in two or more dimensions, both for general algorithms for squares and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-07 David Blitz , Sandy Heydrich , Rob van Stee , André van Vliet , Gerhard J. Woeginger

The bin packing problem exists widely in real logistic scenarios (e.g., packing pipeline, express delivery), with its goal to improve the packing efficiency and reduce the transportation cost. In this NP-hard combinatorial optimization…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Jiahui Duan , Xialiang Tong , Fei Ni , Zhenan He , Lei Chen , Mingxuan Yuan

Pick-and-place robots are commonly used in modern industrial manufacturing. For complex devices/parts like camera modules used in smartphones, which contain optical parts, electrical components and interfacing connectors, the placement…

The two-dimensional non-oriented bin packing problem with due dates packs a set of rectangular items, which may be rotated by 90 degrees, into identical rectangular bins. The bins have equal processing times. An item's lateness is the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-09 S. Polyakovskiy , R. M'Hallah

Autonomous stores leverage advanced sensing technologies to enable cashier-less shopping, real-time inventory tracking, and seamless customer interactions. However, these systems face significant challenges, including occlusion in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-12 Shimmy Rukundo , David Wang , Front Wongnonthawitthaya , Youssouf Sidibé , Minsik Kim , Emily Su , Jiale Zhang

We consider the fully dynamic bin packing problem, where items arrive and depart in an online fashion and repacking of previously packed items is allowed. The goal is, of course, to minimize both the number of bins used as well as the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-01-15 Sebastian Berndt , Klaus Jansen , Kim-Manuel Klein

Instance segmentation is an important pre-processing task in numerous real-world applications, such as robotics, autonomous vehicles, and human-computer interaction. Compared with the rapid development of deep learning for two-dimensional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Yajun Xu , Shogo Arai , Diyi Liu , Fangzhou Lin , Kazuhiro Kosuge

The paper described a generalized integrated glance to bin packing problems including a brief literature survey and some new problem formulations for the cases of multiset estimates of items. A new systemic viewpoint to bin packing problems…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-05-25 Mark Sh. Levin