Mechanical Design of a Cartesian Manipulator for Warehouse Pick and Place

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Robotic manipulation and grasping in cluttered and unstructured environments is a current challenge for robotics.

• Enabling robots to operate in these challenging environments have direct applications from automating warehouses to harvesting fruit in agriculture.
• One of the main challenges associated with these difficult robotic manipulation tasks is the motion planning and control problem for multi-DoF (Degree of Freedom) manipulators.
• This paper presents the design and performance evaluation of a low-cost Cartesian manipulator, Cartman who took first place in the Amazon Robotics Challenge 2017.