X-Ray: Mechanical Search for an Occluded Object by Minimizing Support of Learned Occupancy Distributions
For applications in e-commerce, warehouses, healthcare, and home service, robots are often required to search through heaps of objects to grasp a specific target object. For mechanical search, we introduce X-Ray, an algorithm based on learned occupancy distributions.
Evidence notes
- Experiments use YuMi (IRB 14000 Dual-arm) as the physical evaluation platform.
- The reported results provide an independent evaluation on YuMi (IRB 14000 Dual-arm) hardware.
Company context
ABB is a publicly listed electrification and automation group. It currently owns ABB Robotics, whose signed sale to SoftBank remains pending, while Machine Automation continues inside ABB's Automation business.