Robot vision
By: edited by Alan Pugh
Series: International trends in manufacturing technology; International trends in manufacturing technology
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1983
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9783662097717; 9783662097731
Subjects: Optical pattern recognition; Industrial Robots
Description: Over the past five years robot vision has emerged as a subject area with its own identity. A text based on the proceedings of the Symposium on Computer Vision and Sensor-based Robots held at the General Motors Research Laboratories, Warren, Michigan in 1978, was published by Plenum Press in 1979. This book, edited by George G. Dodd and Lothar Rosso!, probably represented the first identifiable book covering some aspects of robot vision. The subject of robot vision and sensory controls (RoViSeC) occupied an entire international conference held in the Hilton Hotel in Stratford, England in May 1981. This was followed by a second RoViSeC held in Stuttgart, Germany in November 1982. The large attendance at the Stratford conference and the obvious interest in the subject of robot vision at international robot meetings, provides the stimulus for this current collection of papers. Users and researchers entering the field of robot vision for the first time will encounter a bewildering array of publications on all aspects of computer vision of which robot vision forms a part. It is the grey area dividing the different aspects of computer vision which is not easy to identify. Even those involved in research sometimes find difficulty in separating the essential differences between vision for automated inspection and vision for robot applications. Both of these are to some extent applications of pattern recognition with the underlying philosophy of each defining the techniques used.
Table of contents: title: 1: Reviews; title: Second generation robotics; title: Computer vision in industry-the next decade; title: 2: Visual Processing Techniques; title: Processing of binary images; title: Recognising and locating partially visible objects: the local-feature-focus method; title: The coupling of a workpiece recognition system with an industrial robot; title: Evaluating vision system performance; title: 3: Research; title: Adaptive visual servo control or robots; title: Use of a T-V camera system in closed-loop position control of mechanisms; title: Towards a flexible vision system; title: The use of taper light beam for object recognition; title: 4: Developments-Weld Guidance; title: Present industrial use of vision sensors for robot guidance; title: A visual sensor for arc-welding robots; title: Vision guided robot system for arc-welding; title: Progress in visual feed-back for arc-welding of thin sheet steel; title: 5: Developments-Assembly/Part Presentation; title: Intelligent assembly robot; title: Simple assembly under visual control; title: A robot system which acquires cylindrical workpieces from bins; title: Flexible assembly module with vision control robot; title: 6: Applications; title: Vision system sorts castings at General Motors Canada; title: Pattern recognition in the factory: an example; title: A C.C.T.V. camera controlled painter; title: Forging: Feasible robotic techniques; title: Automatic chocolate decoration by robot vision; title: 7: Commercial Robot Vision Systems; title: OMS-vision system; title: The PUMA/ VS-100 robot vision system; title: S.A.M. Opto-electronic picture sensor in a flexible manufacturing system; title: Vision system separates gathering from processing; title: Westinghouse grey scale vision system for real-time control and inspection; title: Authors' organisations and addresses.