Saud Ahmed Khan

Mr. Saud Ahmed Khan


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Academic Career Length

1Year (2026-Present)

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3 November 2026 in AI
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MAMuhammad Arsalan
Muhammad Arsalan
AIAbid Imran
Abid Imran
SKSaud Ahmed Khan
Saud Ahmed Khan
IUIkram Ullah
Ikram Ullah
KAKamran Aqeel
Kamran Aqeel
Muhammad Farooq SiddiqueMuhammad Farooq Siddique
Muhammad Farooq Siddique
Rigid container walls invalidate the open-workspace assumptions of tabletop manipulation, leaving three coupled gaps: unconstrained trajectories can be wall-unsafe, single-point grasp checks reject accessible offset positions, and occlusion-removal actions can ignore wall proximity. This paper treats bin wall geometry as a first-class constraint. A multimodal framework couples YOLO11 instance segmentation with a radial-basis-function support vector machine (SVM) and geometric rules to select among five modes—direct grasping, height-based grasping, two-dimensional singulation, and partial and full occlusion removal based on target visibility, relative height, grasp feasibility and wall proximity. Every trajectory passes a common wall-constraint validator before reaching the controller. Experiments used a UR5e with an overhead RGB-D camera. YOLOv11m-Segmentation model reached 0.992 box and 0.991 mask mAP@0.5 with an average inference time of 0.4350 ± 0.11 s. Task success was 100.0%, 93.3%, and 86.66% at low, medium, and high clutter (30 trials per condition). At high clutter, the ablation increased TSR from 66.66% for the single-point wall-unaware baseline to 83.33% with multi-point grasp selection and 86.66% with wall-aware singulation. The proposed system achieved a 90% Task Success Rate (TSR), compared with Target-Oriented VPG, which achieved 60% TSR, and GraspNet with bin-wall constraints, which achieved 40% TSR with 10 trials in a high-clutter environment. Across the 90 proposed-system trials, six task failures were observed, but none involved wall contact. Because container awareness sits in the planning layer rather than the end-effector, the method retrofits to installed cells using standard two-finger hardware.