Latin American Robotics Competition Open Challenge

The competition context is aimed at automating an environment with a large number of packages to be organized, Figure 1. The essence of the competition is extracted from environments such as warehouse, product distribution center, store stock, etc.

Warehouses automation is already a reality in large companies like Amazon and Alibaba, but it should be a reality in midsize companies soon. Think of a possible solution. Participants must build an agile and fast robot to organize as many packages as possible in a limited time.

The goal

The robot can move freely in the scenario but cannot collide or push a package out of the package's area. To reach the challenges of the competition, the robot must take each package and leave it to its destination. The robot will not know his initial position in the scenario either the position of the packs in the package's area. The objective is to take packages from a specific location and take them to predefined locations, so that, at the end, the packages are in a desired arrangement in the proposed scenario. The specific objectives are: 1. Take colored packages (yellow, red, green, blue) and move them to the unloading regions with equivalent colors. 2. Pick up packages containing 2D codes and move them to any respective position on the shelves. 3. Pick up packages with alphabetical values and take them to any respective position on the shelves.

Packages

Packages can be marked by color, 2D codes or alphabetical values. The possible colors for the packages are green, yellow, blue and red. The 2D code is a bi-dimensional representation containing 9 combinations, from one to 9, according to the markers that can be obtained from the site https://chev.me/arucogen. The alphabetical packages are white and the 2D code packages are black. There is a specific region in the scenario where the packages are initially positioned, called the loading region.