Control device and method for item verification

A system comprising, in combination:

• a robot system including a sensor unit, the robot system being configured and arranged to grasp an item;
• and
• a control unit for operation with the robot system, the control unit comprising:
• the sensor unit;
• a verification unit arranged to receive identifying information of the item expected to be in the container, receive information from the sensor unit indicative of a dynamics property of the item grasped by the robot system and verify that the item grasped by the robot system matches the item expected to be in the container based on the received identifying information and the received dynamics property information, the sensor unit including at least one of a force sensor, a torque sensor, a shear-force sensor, an acceleration sensor, a microphone and a pressure sensor.

A method for operating a robot system having a sensor unit, the robot system being configured and arranged to grasp an item from a container, the method comprising:

• receiving identifying information of an item expected to be in the container;
• receiving information from the sensor unit indicative of a dynamics property of an item grasped by the robot system;
• verifying that the item grasped by the robot system matches the item expected to be in the container based on the received identifying information and the received dynamics property information;
• and
• receiving, when the verifying step determines that the items do not match, identifying information of the item and information indicative of the dynamics property of the item;
• and
• training a statistical model based on the identifying information of the item together with the information indicative of the dynamics property of the item.