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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2026

A Complete Grocery Pick-and-Pack Application Using a Computationally Lightweight Vision-Based Mobile Manipulator.

Thanavin Mansakul, Gilbert Tang, Phil Webb, Jamie Rice, Daniel Oakley, James Fowler

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors.

Thanavin MansakulCentre for Robotics and Assembly, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cranfield University, Bedford MK43 0AL, UK.ORCID 0009-0009-5792-5120
Gilbert TangCentre for Robotics and Assembly, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cranfield University, Bedford MK43 0AL, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-5497-7269
Phil WebbCentre for Robotics and Assembly, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cranfield University, Bedford MK43 0AL, UK.
Jamie RiceCentre for Robotics and Assembly, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cranfield University, Bedford MK43 0AL, UK.
Daniel OakleyCentre for Robotics and Assembly, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cranfield University, Bedford MK43 0AL, UK.
James FowlerCentre for Robotics and Assembly, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cranfield University, Bedford MK43 0AL, UK.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mobile manipulators have become essential platforms for autonomous tasks that demand high-quality performance and efficient operational processes. This paper presents a complete grocery pick-and-pack system for a mobile manipulator, integrating a graphical user interface (GUI) with an end-to-end vision-based grasp detection pipeline designed for lightweight computation. The system is evaluated on the Grocery Pick-and-Pack Benchmark (Level-3), the most challenging level due to deformable objects, dimensional constraints, and strict grasp-point requirements. Experimental results demonstrate an average success rate of 92% across five item classes, with the deformable sweet bag the most challenging at 60% and an average execution time of 7.5 s on an edge device. The system achieves strong computational efficiency, reflected by a compute-to-speed ratio (CSR) of 0.008, with a total model size of only 30.9 MB. Performance is further validated across multiple hardware platforms and under real competition scenarios in the European Robotics League 2025. The findings highlight the practical impact of lightweight, vision-based mobile manipulation and provide insights into current challenges and future research directions for autonomous robotic applications.

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end-to-end grasp detectionlightweight computationmachine visionmobile manipulatorobject detectionobject pose estimationvision-based grasping system

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PMID42122582
PMCPMC13165663

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