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This paper presents and discuss an overview of an AI pipeline to analyze the effects of substituting plastic film with Kraft paper in the tertiary packaging, i.e., in the external envelope of a pallet. Since there is no prior knowledge about paper wrapping yet, the goal is to understand the physics of the load unit—wrapped in paper—when subject to horizontal accelerations. This permits to study and analyze its rigidity and robustness to permanent deformations and/or excessive shifting during road or rail freight, to avoid damages and ripping of the envelope. The idea behind our AI pipeline is to virtually simulate such a situation, to precisely identify critical use cases, and eventually suggest a correction in the wrapping format. The first gain in using such an approach is to drastically reduce the number of physical tests needed to build a solid base knowledge about the behavior of Kraft paper enveloping the pallet during motion. The proposed pipeline consists of three phases: (i) data collection from real tests, (ii) modeling of the simulation, fitting relevant parameters between the actual test and the simulated one, and (iii) performing of virtual experiments on different settings, to suggest the best format. Computer vision and machine learning techniques are employed to accomplish these tasks, and preliminary results show encouraging performances of the proposed idea.
Project entitled “Machine learning to substitute LLDPE plastic film with Kraft paper in automatic pallet wrapping,” supported by ACMI S.p.A. and funded with D.M. 10.08.2021 n.1062 on FSE REACT-EU, by Ministero dell’Università e della Ricerca (MUR), under the Programma Operativo Nazionale (PON) “Ricerca e Innovazione” 2014–2020–Azione Green.
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Iotti, E., Dal Palù, A., Contesso, G., Bertinelli, F. (2023). Substitute Plastic Film with Kraft Paper in Automatic Pallet Wrapping: An AI Pipeline. In: Dovier, A., Montanari, A., Orlandini, A. (eds) AIxIA 2022 – Advances in Artificial Intelligence. AIxIA 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13796. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27181-6_20
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