This paper describes an algorithm for the automatic segmentation and representation of surface structures and non-uniformities in an industrial setting. The automatic image processing and analysis algorithm is develop...
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This paper describes an algorithm for the automatic segmentation and representation of surface structures and non-uniformities in an industrial setting. The automatic image processing and analysis algorithm is developed as part of a complete on-line web characterization system of a papermaking process at the wet end. The goal is to: (1) link certain types of structures on the surface of the web to known machine parameter values, and (2) find the connection between detected structures at the beginning of the line and defects seen on the final product. Images of the pulp mixture (slurry), carried by a fast moving table, are obtained using a stroboscopic light and a CCD camera. This characterization algorithm succeeded where conventional contrast and edge detection techniques failed due to a poorly controlled environment. The images obtained have poor contrast and contain noise caused by a variety of sources. After a number of enhancement steps, conventional segmentation methods still failed to detect any structures and are consequently discarded. techniques tried include the Canny edge detector, the Sobel, Roberts, and Prewitt's filters, as well as zero crossings. The facet model algorithm, is then applied to the images with various parameter settings and is found to be successful in detecting the various topographic characteristics of the surface of the slurry. Pertinent topographic elements are retained and a filtered image computed. Carefully tailored morphological operators are then applied to detect and segment regions of interest. Those regions are then selected according to their size, elongation, and orientation. Their bounding rectangles are computed and represented. Also addressed in this paper are aspects of the real time implementation of this algorithm for on-line use. The algorithm is tested on over 500 images of slurry and is found to segment and characterize nonuniformities on all 500 images.
An intelligent robot is a remarkably useful combination of a manipulator, sensors and controls. The current use of these machines in outer space, medicine, hazardous materials, defense applications and industry is bei...
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(纸本)0819434302
An intelligent robot is a remarkably useful combination of a manipulator, sensors and controls. The current use of these machines in outer space, medicine, hazardous materials, defense applications and industry is being pursued with vigor but little funding. In factory automation such robotics machines can improve productivity, increase product quality and improve competitiveness. The computer and the robot have both been developed during recent times. The intelligent robot combines both technologies and requires a thorough understanding and knowledge of mechatronics. In honor of the new millennium, this paper will present a discussion of futuristic trends and predictions. However, in keeping with technical tradition, a new technique for `Follow the Leader' will also be presented in the hope of it becoming a new, useful and non-obvious technique. Today's robotic machines are faster, cheaper, more repeatable, more reliable and safer. The knowledge base of inverse kinematic and dynamic solutions and intelligent controls is increasing. More attention is being given by industry to robots, vision and motion controls. New areas of usage are emerging for service robots, remote manipulators and automated guided vehicles. Economically, the robotics industry now has more than a billion-dollar market in the U.S. and is growing. Feasibility studies show decreasing costs for robots and unaudited healthy rates of return for a variety of robotic applications. However, the road from inspiration to successful application can be long and difficult, often taking decades to achieve a new product. A greater emphasis on mechatronics is needed in our universities. Certainly, more cooperation between government, industry and universities is needed to speed the development of intelligentrobots that will benefit industry and society.
Real-time path planning is a key subject in the research of a Multi-robot system, such as in soccer robot system, as in such system there are several robots to coordinate to complete one task and its workspace is time...
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Real-time path planning is a key subject in the research of a Multi-robot system, such as in soccer robot system, as in such system there are several robots to coordinate to complete one task and its workspace is time-varying. There exist unpredictable changes in such workspace. These changes will make the robots path planning tremendously hard. This paper introduce the study on the real-time planning of a multi-robot system, such as soccer robots system. In such systems, as there exist multiple mobile robots, robots path planning is highly required of real-time and of high path planning quality. In this paper, the definitions of Active Obstacle and Dominating Robot are put forward. Genetic-planning and Fuzzy-correction are developed as our path planning techniques. The concept of Sector Vital Value is proposed for Genetic-planning and Fuzzy-correction. Block-Inserting strategy is employed to further improve the system's real-time performance in the workspace modelization. It takes only 2% of workspace modeling time required by Grid-modeling technique. After taking the proposed measures, the system's real-time performance is improved a lot. The initial simulation shows that our planning strategy can meet real-time demand.
An new concept for visually guided manipulator control is introduced. It eliminates the need for a calibration of the manipulator as well as of the vision system and comprises an automatic adaptation to changing param...
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(纸本)0819434302
An new concept for visually guided manipulator control is introduced. It eliminates the need for a calibration of the manipulator as well as of the vision system and comprises an automatic adaptation to changing parameters. A key point of the concept is the achievement of a complex and elaborate desired goal by activating an appropriate sequence of rather simple elementary behaviors. Contrary to conventional stereo vision methods it uses an calibration-free camera system and allows a direct transition from image coordinates to motion control commands of a robot. By this approach, the abstract coordinate transformations have been avoided, instead, image data are used directly to control the behavior of the robot, or the interactions of the robot with physical objects. Thus, it makes knowledge of many hard-to-measure optical and mechanical system unnecessary;moreover, it lends itself to the realization of learning and adaptive robots. The concept has been successfully realized and tested in real-word experiments with an visually guided calibration-free 5 degree of freedom (DOF) manipulator involving the grasping of various objects with nearly any shape in arbitrary position (standing, lying, sloping) in the robot' 3-D work space.
This paper describes two methods for feature extraction. The goal is to interpret the data obtained from sonar measurements of the robot's environment as geometric map primitives. The extracted primitives can be u...
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This paper describes two methods for feature extraction. The goal is to interpret the data obtained from sonar measurements of the robot's environment as geometric map primitives. The extracted primitives can be used to update the robot position and the global map. This is the process how the robot can explore an unknown environment. The first algorithm gathers sonar measurements into sensor-based map and then using computer-visiontechniques and morphological operations extracts geometric description of detected obstacles. The second method is started whenever the border tracking algorithm has been activated. This method uses raw sonar data as the input while obstacle border is robustly detected by the border tracking process. The algorithms have been verified with an experimental mobile robot at the Czech Technical University.
The proceedings contains 53 papers from the SPIE Conference on intelligentrobots and computervision XVII: algorithms, techniques, and Active vision. Topics discussed include: planetary rovers for long-range Mars sci...
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The proceedings contains 53 papers from the SPIE Conference on intelligentrobots and computervision XVII: algorithms, techniques, and Active vision. Topics discussed include: planetary rovers for long-range Mars science and sample return;pose estimation;geometric and orthogonal moments;Shen-Castan and Canny-Deriche filters;Bayesian neural network learning;robot guidance;face recognition;wireless video monitoring and robot control;image processing for intelligent robotics;robot path planning, guidance and control;color computervision;3D visualization for intelligent robotics;active robotic vision;and image segmentation in computervision.
This paper describes a practical approach for environment perception using fusion of active ranging with a low-power laser and passive, stereo based ranging. A low-cost, coarse pitch linear detector is used, but still...
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(纸本)081942983X
This paper describes a practical approach for environment perception using fusion of active ranging with a low-power laser and passive, stereo based ranging. A low-cost, coarse pitch linear detector is used, but still sufficient distance accuracy for mobile robotics is achieved by using a new method of sub-pixel calibration. The device is intended for mobile robot or vehicle perception duties in obstacle detection and target position measurement.
Collision freeness is an essential feature in off-line programming of robots. It relates to safe and efficient operation, and becomes even more critical, when two or more robots are sharing the same work space, which ...
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(纸本)081942983X
Collision freeness is an essential feature in off-line programming of robots. It relates to safe and efficient operation, and becomes even more critical, when two or more robots are sharing the same work space, which is typical for so called holonic robot systems. Here we are reporting a simple and fast path planning algorithm based on configuration space method, suitable for holonic robot applications. The basic version of the algorithm can be found from the literature, and we have extended and modified it to improve its feasibility. Simulation and experimental tests have been carried out succesfully.
An intelligent robot is a remarkably useful combination of a manipulator, sensors and controls. The use of these machines in factory automation can improve productivity, increase product quality and improve competitiv...
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ISBN:
(纸本)081942983X
An intelligent robot is a remarkably useful combination of a manipulator, sensors and controls. The use of these machines in factory automation can improve productivity, increase product quality and improve competitiveness. This paper presents a discussion of recent technical and economic trends. Technically, the machines are faster, cheaper, more repeatable, more reliable and safer. The knowledge base of inverse kinematic and dynamic solutions and intelligent controls is increasing. More attention is being given by industry to robots, vision and motion controls. New areas of usage are emerging for service robots, remote manipulators and automated guided vehicles. Economically, the robotics industry now has a 1.1 billion-dollar market in the U.S. and is growing. Feasibility studies results are presented which also show decreasing costs for robots and unaudited healthy rates of return for a variety of robotic applications. However, the road from inspiration to successful application can be long and difficult, often taking decades to achieve a new product. A greater emphasis on mechatronics is needed in our universities. Certainly, more cooperation between government, industry and universities is needed to speed the development of intelligentrobots that will benefit industry and society.
The purpose of our works is to provide fast and reliable face localization techniques in real time an in real-life scenes. Person localization is included in this problem. The end application sought is the ability of ...
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(纸本)081942983X
The purpose of our works is to provide fast and reliable face localization techniques in real time an in real-life scenes. Person localization is included in this problem. The end application sought is the ability of mobile robots to navigate in human populated environments, and to start visual interaction with them. Known methods are computationally intensive, far from real time implementation at near future processing power of off-the-shelf processors. Our technique is based in motion segmentation, signature analysis and color processing. Signature analysis provides fast hints of the person and face localization. Color processing is used to confirm the face hypothesis, and it is based on our works on adaptive color quantization of image sequences. The technique can be implemented in real time and combined with other approaches to enhance the recognition results.
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