Illumination-based real-time contactless synchronization of high-speed vision sensors

  • Authors:
  • Lei Hou;Shingo Kagami;Koichi Hashimoto

  • Affiliations:
  • Graduation School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, 6-6-01 Aramaki Aza Aoba, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8579, Japan;Graduation School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, 6-6-01 Aramaki Aza Aoba, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8579, Japan;Graduation School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, 6-6-01 Aramaki Aza Aoba, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8579, Japan

  • Venue:
  • ROBIO '09 Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

To acquire images of a scene from multiple points of view simultaneously, the acquisition time of vision sensors should be synchronized. In this paper, an illumination-based synchronization technique derived from the phase-locked loop algorithm is proposed. Both Simulation results and experimental results show that the operation of vision sensor can be successfully locked to the corresponding edges of an intensity-modulated LED illumination signal in real time, as long as the feedback gain is empirically chosen with the help of MATLAB simulation.