The Amazon Picking Challenge is the first competition held by the e-commerce giant to design a computerized management of its warehouses. The software product will become available to the scientific community.
The Amazon Picking Challenge is the first competition held by the giant e -commerce to design a computerized management of its stores, from which every day are shipped hundreds of thousands of goods purchased online worldwide.
L in the final will be held in Seattle May 26 to 30, at ICRA 2015 . There will be cash prizes for the top 3 and the first prize amounts to $ 20,000.
The competition launched by Amazon as aims to stimulate researchers find automated technology solutions to select and pull off the shelves for the goods ordered online by customers (books, cereal boxes, mobile phones) and reload as parcels ready to be shipped.
Another goal is to evolve the research in robotics; In fact, at the end of the race all the software product will become open source and available to the scientific community.
At Amazon Picking Challenge there will be two groups of researchers Pisa University and the Polytechnic University of Turin, which will compete with 30 others among the world’s best universities like MIT in Boston UC Berkeley; in fact among the selected projects, there are also two Italians, of which the Turin Polytechnic was made with Comau (group member Fca). The working group is composed of Simone Baratta, Giorgio Tuscany, Manuel Del Verme (for Politecnico di Torino) and Valentina Ferrara, Ivan and Andrea Lazzero Bisson (for Comau).
One of the researchers of the Polytechnic, Manuel Del Verme, told ANSA that “this solution employs a robot Comau (the Racer 999) to create a” arm “with six degrees of freedom, namely that moves in six dimensions, with millimeter precision and great speed of movement. The gripper systems are two, one of which is quite innovative, there is nothing this type of business at the time. “
Dal Verme continues the explanation by saying that “the brain of the robot is a software that uses a system of vision and depth, combined with a webcam, makes sure that the arm know exactly what and where to grab.”
The researcher adds: “We are happy to get to Seattle, the qualification was very complex and the final is already proof that he has done a great job. In a time when I was beginning to believe that there was a good chance to stay in Italy, the facts show that there are companies willing to invest. ”
The second project made in Italy was developed by the Research Center “E. Piaggio »University of Pisa and the Italian Institute of Technology.
The researcher of the University of Pisa, Manolo Garabini says:” Our point of force is the hand used in our robot: it has all the degrees of freedom of a human hand, which is about 20 and a single motor that moves all the phalanges. This allows it to adapt to the shape and texture of objects very different, thanks also to some bearings which function like muscles and perform movements that can be softer. “
After the trip to Seattle, or researchers of Pisa DARPA Robotic Challenge will go to Los Angeles to show humanoid robots that are able to perform various tasks, including driving a car, in a dangerous situation with the order to be able to replace humans in the future to rescue or recovery where currently many men risk their lives.
Manolo Garabini ANSA says: “We are lucky to be in environments where there are facilities to compete at the highest level in the field of robotic and we are not the only ones; There are several laboratories in Italy following projects of the highest level. “
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