Intelligent Robotic Palletizer System

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Generally, the work presented in the paper is interesting. 

However, the writing style should be better by dividing the text into more specific subject matter. The current writing style has paragraphs that are too long making it difficult to follow, and results in difficulty to understand to the reader.  Some sentences are not complete hence message is not delivered.

Numbering system for the descriptions of Figure 38 must be changed as to not conflict with the numbering of the sections.

The conclusions are actually the discussions on the results of the work. The real conclusions is missing. In the abstract, "detection mechanism for stacking correctness and personnel safety" seems to be the goal of the work, and hence this should be address in the conclusions - how the work presented in the paper addresses this issue.  

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Reviewer 2 Report

The document seems to have been written to be a book chapter. All language that refers to "chapter", etc. needs to be corrected. Some of the document reads quite will but the technical description is poorly written mostly because of poor English usage. This must be edited. In my opinion, too many claims are being made concerning too many features. The system does stacking but seem sot have an AI-based safety system which muddies the water of what the contribution of the paper is. The paper would be much more impactful if it made claims that were based on a better literature review. However, there are few citation and the reader is left wondering it what is claimed is new or derivative of some other work that is not cited. It would be helpful if the authors included examples of successful stacking and failed stacking rather than a photo of the work station and some drawn images of very regular objects to be stacked. As the paper lacks specific focus, and the language usage is problematic, it is very difficult to gauge if there is a real contribution. There seems to be but the paper reports too much and does not place claims within the existing literature for automatic stacking.  However, the paper is also interesting if you can get past the langugage.

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