OPA-Pack: Object-Property-Aware Robotic Bin Packing

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Main Authors: Pan, Jia-Hui, Cheah, Yeok Tatt, Liu, Zhengzhe, Hui, Ka-Hei, Gao, Xiaojie, Heng, Pheng-Ann, Liu, Yun-Hui, Fu, Chi-Wing
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author Pan, Jia-Hui
Cheah, Yeok Tatt
Liu, Zhengzhe
Hui, Ka-Hei
Gao, Xiaojie
Heng, Pheng-Ann
Liu, Yun-Hui
Fu, Chi-Wing
author_facet Pan, Jia-Hui
Cheah, Yeok Tatt
Liu, Zhengzhe
Hui, Ka-Hei
Gao, Xiaojie
Heng, Pheng-Ann
Liu, Yun-Hui
Fu, Chi-Wing
contents Robotic bin packing aids in a wide range of real-world scenarios such as e-commerce and warehouses. Yet, existing works focus mainly on considering the shape of objects to optimize packing compactness and neglect object properties such as fragility, edibility, and chemistry that humans typically consider when packing objects. This paper presents OPA-Pack (Object-Property-Aware Packing framework), the first framework that equips the robot with object property considerations in planning the object packing. Technical-wise, we develop a novel object property recognition scheme with retrieval-augmented generation and chain-of-thought reasoning, and build a dataset with object property annotations for 1,032 everyday objects. Also, we formulate OPA-Net, aiming to jointly separate incompatible object pairs and reduce pressure on fragile objects, while compacting the packing. Further, OPA-Net consists of a property embedding layer to encode the property of candidate objects to be packed, together with a fragility heightmap and an avoidance heightmap to keep track of the packed objects. Then, we design a reward function and adopt a deep Q-learning scheme to train OPA-Net. Experimental results manifest that OPA-Pack greatly improves the accuracy of separating incompatible object pairs (from 52% to 95%) and largely reduces pressure on fragile objects (by 29.4%), while maintaining good packing compactness. Besides, we demonstrate the effectiveness of OPA-Pack on a real packing platform, showcasing its practicality in real-world scenarios.
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spellingShingle OPA-Pack: Object-Property-Aware Robotic Bin Packing
Pan, Jia-Hui
Cheah, Yeok Tatt
Liu, Zhengzhe
Hui, Ka-Hei
Gao, Xiaojie
Heng, Pheng-Ann
Liu, Yun-Hui
Fu, Chi-Wing
Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Robotic bin packing aids in a wide range of real-world scenarios such as e-commerce and warehouses. Yet, existing works focus mainly on considering the shape of objects to optimize packing compactness and neglect object properties such as fragility, edibility, and chemistry that humans typically consider when packing objects. This paper presents OPA-Pack (Object-Property-Aware Packing framework), the first framework that equips the robot with object property considerations in planning the object packing. Technical-wise, we develop a novel object property recognition scheme with retrieval-augmented generation and chain-of-thought reasoning, and build a dataset with object property annotations for 1,032 everyday objects. Also, we formulate OPA-Net, aiming to jointly separate incompatible object pairs and reduce pressure on fragile objects, while compacting the packing. Further, OPA-Net consists of a property embedding layer to encode the property of candidate objects to be packed, together with a fragility heightmap and an avoidance heightmap to keep track of the packed objects. Then, we design a reward function and adopt a deep Q-learning scheme to train OPA-Net. Experimental results manifest that OPA-Pack greatly improves the accuracy of separating incompatible object pairs (from 52% to 95%) and largely reduces pressure on fragile objects (by 29.4%), while maintaining good packing compactness. Besides, we demonstrate the effectiveness of OPA-Pack on a real packing platform, showcasing its practicality in real-world scenarios.
title OPA-Pack: Object-Property-Aware Robotic Bin Packing
topic Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.13339