Amazon Pick and Place

The Amazon Pick and Place was a team projected and challenge launched by Amazon where the goal was to build a robust and practical state-of-the-art solutions for robotic pick-and-place, a technology central to many applications: from picking and removing items in a logistics center bin and dropped it to another determined space using a budget of $500,00. The project was completed in three semesters.

First Semester

It was completed:

• Linkage Design

• Grabber Design

• Selected components (servos, camera)

• Feasibility Analysis (statics, dynamics and kinematics)

• Workstation (design, materials, build)

Second Semester

It was completed:

• Autonomous motion algorithms

• Position control using inverse kinematics

• Bar code detection

• Computer-based user interface

• Design Package of the whole arm

Third Semester

It was completed:

• Redesign previous code and develop algorithm to sort objects in terms of their colors

• Different color object detection

• Sorting motion control

• Autonomous sorting of three different objects with two different colors