A Vision Driven Automatic Assembly Unit

  • Authors:
  • Gernot Bachler;Martin Berger;Reinhard Röhrer;Stefan Scherer;Axel Pinz

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • CAIP '99 Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

The development of a flexible assembly unit is one of the demanding tasks in industrial manufacturing. A higher degree of flexibility is mostly payed by an increasing complexity of the involved hardware. In this paper we present a three-step concept for a vision driven automatic assembly unit. These three steps are robust bin-picking to isolate objects from a pile of unorganized parts, exact pose determination to enable industrial mounting and visual inspection of the final assembling. For robust bin-picking we present a new structured light approach. Experiments show the robust and accurate behavior of the proposed algorithm and motivate the implementation in an industrial system. For exact pose determination, the second step, a pose estimation based on a modified view based approach, followed by a model based refinement is proposed. Initial experiments promise a fast and exact pose determination.