This repository implements a software tool to assist development and evaluation of bin packing algorithms. This is based on the paper

By Rahul Shome*, Wei N. Tang*, Changkyu Song, Chaitanya Mitash, Chris Kourtev, Jingjin Yu, Abdeslam Boularias, and Kostas E. Bekris (Rutgers University).

In proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2019.

To cite the work:

@inproceedings{shome2019towards,
  title={Towards robust product packing with a minimalistic end-effector},
  author={Shome, Rahul and Tang, Wei N and Song, Changkyu and Mitash, Chaitanya and Kourtev, Hristiyan and Yu, Jingjin and Boularias, Abdeslam and Bekris, Kostas E},
  booktitle={2019 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
  pages={9007--9013},
  year={2019},
  organization={IEEE}
}

1. Download and extract Blender
2. In ~/.bashrc, add line export BLENDER_PATH=/path/to/blender/blender

1. In ~/.bashrc, add line export PHYSIM_GENDATA=/path/to/repo.
2. Run python generate_packing_data.py .
3. The generated data can be found in the folder rendered_images