Manipulation of granular materials by learning particle interactions

N Tuomainen, D Blanco-Mulero… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Manipulation of granular materials such as sand or rice remains an unsolved problem due to
challenges such as the difficulty of defining their configuration or modeling the materials and …

GAM-Depth: Self-Supervised Indoor Depth Estimation Leveraging a Gradient-Aware Mask and Semantic Constraints

A Cheng, Z Yang, H Zhu, K Mao - 2024 IEEE International …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Self-supervised depth estimation has evolved into an image reconstruction task that
minimizes a photometric loss. While recent methods have made strides in indoor depth …

Cluttered food gras** with adaptive fingers and synthetic-data trained object detection

A Ummadisingu, K Takahashi… - … Conference on Robotics …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The food packaging industry handles an immense variety of food products with wide-ranging
shapes and sizes, even within one kind of food. Menus are also diverse and change …

[HTML][HTML] WITHDRAWN: Optimizing Food Sample Handling and Placement Pattern Recognition with YOLO: Advanced Techniques in Robotic Object Detection

S Koga, K Hamamoto, H Lu, Y Nakatoh - 2024 - Elsevier
The publisher regrets that an error occurred which led to the premature publication of this
paper. This error bears no reflection on the article or its authors. The publisher apologizes to …

Learning robotic powder weighing from simulation for laboratory automation

Y Kadokawa, M Hamaya… - 2023 IEEE/RSJ …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This study focuses on a robotic powder weighing task used in laboratory automation. In this
task, a robot weighs a certain amount of powder with a milligram-level target mass using a …

Target-mass gras** of entangled food using pre-gras** & post-gras**

K Takahashi, N Fukaya… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Food packing industries typically use seasonal ingredients with immense variety that factory
workers manually pack. For small pieces of food picked by volume or weight that tend to get …

A ROS 2 Based Robotic System to Pick-and-Place Granular Food Materials

H Paul, Z Qiu, Z Wang, S Hirai… - 2022 IEEE International …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Granular food material handling remains an unre-solved topic due to the difficulties in
determining appropriate grasp configuration. Their quantity is dependent on volume, and …