Machine intelligence research applied to industrial automation
Abstract
Research into advanced automation is discussed. Five principal topics are covered: (1) two dimensional curve segmentation; (2) projector-camera range sensing of three dimensional data; (3) a system for recognition and location of three dimensional parts; (4) modular programmable assembly; and (5) enhancements to robot programming systems (RPS). An algorithm for segmenting a two dimensional curve into straight line segments and circular arcs is presented. The algorithm is applied to silhouette boundaries of industrial parts and to images of their interactions with the plane of light of a projector-camera range sensor. Procedures for calibrating the camera and the light plane are provided and a conceptual system for recognizing and locating three dimensional parts in range data is proposed.
- Publication:
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Southwest Research Inst. Report
- Pub Date:
- January 1983
- Bibcode:
- 1983sri..reptQ....N
- Keywords:
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- Algorithms;
- Artificial Intelligence;
- Computer Programming;
- Information Theory;
- Man Machine Systems;
- Projectors;
- Calibrating;
- Cameras;
- Coding;
- Computers;
- Error Analysis;
- Linear Equations;
- Robots;
- Sensors;
- Servomechanisms;
- Engineering (General)