Elie Ayoub — accepted AI-conference papers

2024

Log Loading Automation for Timber-Harvesting Industry

Elie Ayoub, Heshan Fernando, William Larrivée-Hardy, Nicolas Lemieux, Philippe Giguère, Inna Sharf

ICRA 2024poster

The timber-harvesting industry is lagging its peer industries, such as mining and agriculture, with respect to deployment of robotic, AI and autonomous technologies. In this paper, we tackle automation of a critical task that arises in transporting logs from the forest to the sawmill: the log loadin…

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2023

Grasp Planning with CNN for Log-loading Forestry Machine

Elie Ayoub, Patrick Levesque, Inna Sharf

ICRA 2023poster

Log loading constitutes a key operation in timber harvesting, and despite the recent spike of interest in introducing automation to the forestry sector, efficient and intelligent grasping of logs remains unresolved. This paper presents a grasp planning pipeline that relies on the identification of l…

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