Recognizing 3D Objects Using Tactile Sensing and Curve Invariants

  • Authors:
  • Daniel Keren;Ehud Rivlin;Ilan Shimshoni;Isaac Weiss

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Haifa, Haifa 31905, Israel. dkeren@mathcs2.haifa.ac.il;Department of Computer Science, Technion, Technion City 32000, Israel. ehudr@cs.technion.ac.il;Department of Ind. Eng. and Mgmt., Technion, Technion City 32000, Israel. ilans@ie.technion.ac.il;Center for Automation Research, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742 USA. weiss@cfar.umd.edu

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

A general paradigm for recognizing 3D objectsis offered, and applied to some geometric primitives (spheres, cylinders, cones, and tori). The assumption is that a curve onthe surface, or a pair of intersecting curves, was measuredwith high accuracy (for instance, by a sensory robot).Differential invariants of the curve(s) are then usedto recognize the surface. The motivation is twofold:the output of some devices is not surface range data, butsuch curves. Also, a considerablespeedup is obtained by using curve data, as opposed tosurface data which usually contains a much higher numberof points.We survey global, algebraic methods for recognizingsurfaces, and point out their limitations. Afterintroducing some notions from differential geometry and eliminationtheory, the differential and “semi-differential”approaches to the problem are described, and novelinvariants which are based on the curve's curvature andtorsion are derived.