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Final Project
The Amazon Picking Challenge
Assigned: April 7, 2015
Multiple Due Dates (all materials must be submitted via BlackBoard)
Group Proposal Report Due: April 10, 23:59:59
Group Demonstration: April 30, 15:30 – 16:45 in BBW325
Individual Final Report Due: May 3, 23:59:59
Introduction
The final project follows the midterm project. The goal is to implement all individual components on a
Baxter robot to accomplish the Amazon Picking Challenge.
Objective
The objective is to allow the Baxter robot to obtain a task score as high as possible in the Amazon Picking
Challenge. Please carefully read the completion website: http://www.amazonpickingchallenge.org/.
Scoring of Group Demonstration
The final project will be evaluated using same rules used in the Amazon Picking Challenge.
Turning in your project
The Final Project has multiple due dates. The Group Proposal Report must be submitted by the team
leader via Blackboard. Each student must submit a final project report individually via Blackboard. The
contents required to be included in each submission are listed as follows:
Group Proposal Report (due on April 10, 23:59:59, not necessary to use LaTex):
(1) Provide a brief description of approaches you plan to use to address each objective;
(2) Include a timeline and workload breakdown, especially who will work on which tasks, to show
your plan of finishing the project.
In-lab Demonstration (on April 30, 15:30 – 16:45 in BBW325):
During that period, you will have a chance to show off your implementation to address this
challenging real-world picking problem. The code will be then submitted by the Team Leader.
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Individual Final Report (due on May 3, 23:59:59, must use LaTex and IEEE conference format):
Please follow the detailed guidelines of final report in the next section.
Final Report/Paper Guidelines
As part of your completed final project on the Amazon Picking Challenge, each individual must prepare
a paper (4-6 pages) describing your project. Your paper must be formatted using LaTex and the standard 2-column IEEE conference paper format (details of Latex and IEEE conference format was discussed
in Mini Project). Please do not exceed 6 pages for your paper.
The final report you turn in must be in pdf format and to BlackBoard. Your paper must at least include
the following sections:
 Abstract: An abstract of 200 to 300 words summarizing your project and findings.
 Introduction: An introduction describing the Amazon Picking Challenge and the problem (e.g.,
2D/3D object recognition, grasping, hardware design, etc.) you addressed in the project, including formulation of the problems, a brief description of your methods and the structure of your
paper.
 Approach: A detailed description of your approaches to solve the problem, with enough information to understand and enable someone to recreate your system.
 Experiments: Experimental results plus an explanation and discussion of the results, such as in
what situations your system can obtain the best performance, when it fails, the efficiency of
your program, etc.
 Conclusion: A conclusion and future work section that summaries your midterm project, point
out future work you believe would improve your implementation for the Amazon Picking Challenge, and any other insightful observations you’d like to make.
Grading
Your grade (totally 100 points) will be based on:
 15 points: The group proposal report,
 15 points: In-lab demonstration (Grading won’t depend on the task scoring).
 60 points: Your individual final paper (graded individually),
 10 points: Format of the paper (graded individually)