Abstract
Depalletizing robotic systems are commonly deployed to automatize and speed-up parts of logistic processes. Despite this, the necessity to adapt the preexisting logistic processes to the automatic systems often impairs the application of such robotic solutions to small business realities like supermarkets. In this chapter we propose an integrated robotic depalletizing system designed to be easily deployed into supermarket logistic processes. Integrating a robotic system into a supermarket backroom demands a high level of autonomy, based on strong perceptive, executive and gripping capabilities. We will describe the system along with its main components showing how the proposed framework performs into a real supermarket scenario.
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Arpenti, P. et al. (2022). Robots Working in the Backroom: Depalletization of Mixed-Case Pallets. In: Villani, L., Natale, C., Beetz, M., Siciliano, B. (eds) Robotics for Intralogistics in Supermarkets and Retail Stores. Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, vol 148. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06078-6_4
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