An Integrated Robotic Depalletizing System for Supermarkets' Backrooms

Depalletizing robotic systems are commonly de- ployed to automatize and speed up parts of logistic processes. De- spite this, the necessity to adapt the preexisting logistic processes to the automatic systems often impairs the application of such robotic solutions to small business realities like supermarkets. Integrating a robotic system into the supermarket depalletizing process demands a high level of autonomy, based on strong perceptive, executive and gripping capabilities. This abstract describes an integrated robotic depalletizing system designed to be easily deployed into supermarket logistic processes. The system is described along with its main components, showing how the proposed framework performs in a real supermarket scenario.