A Visual Intelligence Scheme for Hard Drive Disassembly in Automated Recycling Routines

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Authors

  • Erenus Yildiz
  • Tobias Brinker
  • Erwan Renaudo
  • Jakob J. Hollenstein
  • Simon Haller-Seeber
  • Justus Piater
  • Florentin Wörgötter

External Research Organisations

  • University of Göttingen
  • University of Innsbruck
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Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationROBOVIS 2020 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Robotics, Computer Vision and Intelligent Systems
EditorsPeter Galambos, Kurosh Madani
Pages17-27
Number of pages11
ISBN (electronic)9789897584794
Publication statusPublished - 4 Nov 2020
Externally publishedYes
Event2020 International Conference on Robotics, Computer Vision and Intelligent Systems, ROBOVIS 2020 - Virtual, Online
Duration: 4 Nov 20206 Nov 2020

Publication series

NameROBOVIS 2020 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Robotics, Computer Vision and Intelligent Systems

Abstract

As the state-of-the-art deep learning models are taking the leap to generalize and leverage automation, they are becoming useful in real-world tasks such as disassembly of devices by robotic manipulation. We address the problem of analyzing the visual scenes on industrial-grade tasks, for example, automated robotic recycling of a computer hard drive with small components and little space for manipulation. We implement a supervised learning architecture combining deep neural networks and standard pointcloud processing for detecting and recognizing hard drives parts, screws, and gaps. We evaluate the architecture on a custom hard drive dataset and reach an accuracy higher than 75% in every component used in our pipeline. Additionally, we show that the pipeline can generalize on damaged hard drives. Our approach combining several specialized modules can provide a robust description of a device usable for manipulation by a robotic system. To our knowledge, we are the pioneers to offer a complete scheme to address the entire disassembly process of the chosen device. To facilitate the pursuit of this issue of global concern, we provide a taxonomy for the target device to be used in automated disassembly scenarios and publish our collected dataset and code.

Keywords

    Automation, E-waste, Object classification, Object detection, Recycling

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A Visual Intelligence Scheme for Hard Drive Disassembly in Automated Recycling Routines. / Yildiz, Erenus; Brinker, Tobias; Renaudo, Erwan et al.
ROBOVIS 2020 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Robotics, Computer Vision and Intelligent Systems. ed. / Peter Galambos; Kurosh Madani. 2020. p. 17-27 (ROBOVIS 2020 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Robotics, Computer Vision and Intelligent Systems).

Research output: Chapter in book/report/conference proceedingConference contributionResearchpeer review

Yildiz, E, Brinker, T, Renaudo, E, Hollenstein, JJ, Haller-Seeber, S, Piater, J & Wörgötter, F 2020, A Visual Intelligence Scheme for Hard Drive Disassembly in Automated Recycling Routines. in P Galambos & K Madani (eds), ROBOVIS 2020 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Robotics, Computer Vision and Intelligent Systems. ROBOVIS 2020 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Robotics, Computer Vision and Intelligent Systems, pp. 17-27, 2020 International Conference on Robotics, Computer Vision and Intelligent Systems, ROBOVIS 2020, Virtual, Online, 4 Nov 2020.
Yildiz, E., Brinker, T., Renaudo, E., Hollenstein, J. J., Haller-Seeber, S., Piater, J., & Wörgötter, F. (2020). A Visual Intelligence Scheme for Hard Drive Disassembly in Automated Recycling Routines. In P. Galambos, & K. Madani (Eds.), ROBOVIS 2020 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Robotics, Computer Vision and Intelligent Systems (pp. 17-27). (ROBOVIS 2020 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Robotics, Computer Vision and Intelligent Systems).
Yildiz E, Brinker T, Renaudo E, Hollenstein JJ, Haller-Seeber S, Piater J et al. A Visual Intelligence Scheme for Hard Drive Disassembly in Automated Recycling Routines. In Galambos P, Madani K, editors, ROBOVIS 2020 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Robotics, Computer Vision and Intelligent Systems. 2020. p. 17-27. (ROBOVIS 2020 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Robotics, Computer Vision and Intelligent Systems).
Yildiz, Erenus ; Brinker, Tobias ; Renaudo, Erwan et al. / A Visual Intelligence Scheme for Hard Drive Disassembly in Automated Recycling Routines. ROBOVIS 2020 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Robotics, Computer Vision and Intelligent Systems. editor / Peter Galambos ; Kurosh Madani. 2020. pp. 17-27 (ROBOVIS 2020 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Robotics, Computer Vision and Intelligent Systems).
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