Development of the Load-balanced Bin Packing System

Research on robots is one of the topics that have been actively studied before. And recently, as the demand for factory automation increases, research for factory automation using robots is being actively conducted. However, it is difficult for robots to replace all tasks of people currently working in factories. Accordingly, the demand for research in which automated robots and humans collaborate is increasing. In this paper, we present a load-balanced bin packing system for both a robot and a human to perform bin packing efficiently. When a robot packs an object into a target box, it takes into account the weight of the object and packs it so that the center of gravity of the box is as central as possible, so that a person can carry the packed box more stably. In experiments, we show the effectiveness of this system by configuring an environment similar to the actual line process and performing load-balanced bin packing in this environment.