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Item picking is one of the most challenging functions in warehousing when it comes to automation. This chapter describes a solution for this challenge that serves as a benchmark for further research in enabling technologies. It appears that with the off-the-shelf technologies, SIFT-based item recognition, suction gripping, gantry robots, and service-based process control, a workstation can be constructed that covers almost two thirds of the required pick actions. The main class of items that cannot be picked consists of items without a flat surface or without sufficient visual features. These omissions are the starting points for alternative solutions researched in Chaps. 9–12.
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Ketelaars, T., van de Plassche, E. (2012). An Industrial Solution to Automated Item Picking. In: Hamberg, R., Verriet, J. (eds) Automation in Warehouse Development. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-968-0_8
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