To achieve recycling of mixed industrial waste toward an advanced sustainable society,
waste sorting automation through robots is crucial and urgent. For this purpose, a robot is …

Effectively rearranging heterogeneous objects constitutes a high-utility skill that an intelligent
robot should master. Whereas significant work has been devoted to the grasp synthesis of …

We investigate the utility of employing multiple buffers in solving a class of rearrangement
problems with pick-n-swap manipulation primitives. In this problem, objects stored randomly …

Object rearrangement is a fundamental sub-task in accomplishing a great many physical
tasks. As such, effectively executing rearrangement is an important skill for intelligent robots …

Nonprehensile actions such as pushing are crucial for addressing multi-object
rearrangement problems. To date, existing nonprehensile solutions are all robot-centric, ie …

Scrap steel inspection is a critical entry point for connecting the smelting process to the
industrial internet, with its security and privacy being of vital importance. Current …

Object recognition is fundamental to many industrial automation operations such as robotic
material handling. Currently, many industry sectors have seen growing needs to automate …

IN the wake and aftermath of the Second World War,'machine cognition'became a subject of
growing interest [1]. The myriad of efforts and trends that followed gestated into the various …

To determine the quality level of copper scrap granules, existing methods have to manually
identify all kinds of impurities mixed in copper scrap granules relying on technicians' …