Visual assistance to an advanced mechatronic platform for pick and place tasks

  • Authors:
  • Rigas Kouskouridas;Antonios Gasteratos

  • Affiliations:
  • Democritus University of Thrace, Department of Production and Management Engineering, Xanthi, Greece;Democritus University of Thrace, Department of Production and Management Engineering, Xanthi, Greece

  • Venue:
  • ICIRA'10 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Intelligent robotics and applications - Volume Part II
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Recent advances in mechanical and electronic engineering led to the building of more sophisticated mechatronic systems excelling in simplicity, reliability and versatility. On the contrary, the complexity of their parts necessitate integrated control systems along with advanced visual feedback. Generally, a vision system aims at bridging the gap between humans and machines in terms of providing to the latter information about what is perceived visually. This paper shows how the vision system of an advanced mechatronic framework named ACROBOTER is used for the localization of objects. ACROBOTER develops a new locomotion technology that can effectively be utilized in a workplace environment for manipulating small objects simultaneously. Its vision system is based on a multi-camera framework that is responsible for both finding patterns and providing their location in the 3D working space. Moreover, this work presents a novel method for recognizing objects in a scene and providing their spatial information.