Visual Sensing and its Applications

Visual Sensing and its Applications
Author: Zhongxue Gan
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2011-12-28
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3642182879

“Visual Sensing and its Applications: Integration of Laser Sensors to Industrial Robots” provides comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of research and development on this robotic vision system. A laser-structured light is the main concern in discussions of visual sensing. Also addressed in this book are all components of the robotic vision system and an emphasis on how to increase the accuracy of the system using three levels of calibration. This includes calibration of the vision system (eye calibration), calibration of eye-to-hand configuration and calibration of robot kinematics (hand calibration). With the integration of the laser sensors to industrial robots numerous applications in the field of robotic welding, grinding, machining, inspection, and palletizing are illustrated based on practical engineering projects in order to demonstrate how the visual sensing is performed. The book will serve as a valuable resource for researchers and engineers in the areas of robotics and machine vision. Dr. Zhongxue Gan is a vice chairman and chief scientist of the ENN Group, China. He serves as a member of the National Energy Expert Consultation Committee of China and member of the National Coal Council of the USA. He is also a co-founder of Intersmart Robotic Systems Co. Ltd., China. He was a research fellow in flexible automation systems at ABB and a founding director of ABB Corporate Research Robot Laboratories, both in the USA and in China. Dr. Qing Tang is a co-founder and CEO of Intersmart Robotic Systems Co. Ltd., China and an adjunct professor in Physics at Sichuan University, China. He was a principle consulting engineer and project manager at the ABB Corporate Research Robot Laboratory in the USA.

Embedded Visual System and Its Applications on Robots

Embedded Visual System and Its Applications on Robots
Author: De Xu
Publisher: Bentham Science Publishers
Total Pages: 141
Release: 2010
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1608051668

Annotation Embedded vision systems such as smart cameras have been rapidly developed recently. Vision systems have become smaller and lighter, but their performance has improved. The algorithms in embedded vision systems have their specifications limited by frequency of CPU, memory size, and architecture. The goal of this e-book is to provide a an advanced reference work for engineers, researchers and scholars in the field of robotics, machine vision, and automation and to facilitate the exchange of their ideas, experiences and views on embedded vision system models. The effectiveness for all methods is emphasized in a practical sense for systems presented in this e-book.

Image Analysis Applications

Image Analysis Applications
Author: Rangacha Kasturi
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 462
Release: 2020-12-18
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1000147479

This book presents a wide spectrum of applications where image analysis has been successfully employed, providing the reader with an insight into the merits or demerits of a particular technique. It deals with the domain of graphics recognition, document analysis, and map data interpretation.

Visual Sensors

Visual Sensors
Author: Oscar Reinoso
Publisher: MDPI
Total Pages: 738
Release: 2020-03-27
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3039283383

Visual sensors are able to capture a large quantity of information from the environment around them. A wide variety of visual systems can be found, from the classical monocular systems to omnidirectional, RGB-D, and more sophisticated 3D systems. Every configuration presents some specific characteristics that make them useful for solving different problems. Their range of applications is wide and varied, including robotics, industry, agriculture, quality control, visual inspection, surveillance, autonomous driving, and navigation aid systems. In this book, several problems that employ visual sensors are presented. Among them, we highlight visual SLAM, image retrieval, manipulation, calibration, object recognition, navigation, etc.

Robotic Welding, Intelligence and Automation

Robotic Welding, Intelligence and Automation
Author: Tzyh-Jong Tarn
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 486
Release: 2011-04-25
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3642199593

This book shows some contributions presented in the 2010 International Conference on Robotic Welding, Intelligence and Automation (RWIA’2010), Oct. 14-16, 2010, Shanghai, China. Welding handicraft is one of the most primordial and traditional techniques, mainly by manpower and human experiences. Weld quality and efficiency are, therefore, straightly limited by the welder’s skill. In the modern manufacturing, automatic and robotic welding is becoming an inevitable trend. In recent years, the intelligentized techniques for robotic welding have a great development. The current teaching play-back welding robot is not with real-time functions for sensing and adaptive control of weld process. Generally, the key technologies on Intelligentized welding robot and robotic welding process include computer visual and other information sensing, monitoring and real-time feedback control of weld penetration and pool shape and welding quality. Seam tracking is another key technology for welding robot system. Some applications on intelligentized robotic welding technology is also described in this book, it shows a great potential and promising prospect of artificial intelligent technologies in the welding manufacturing.

Active Sensor Planning for Multiview Vision Tasks

Active Sensor Planning for Multiview Vision Tasks
Author: Shengyong Chen
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2008-01-23
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3540770720

This unique book explores the important issues in studying for active visual perception. The book’s eleven chapters draw on recent important work in robot vision over ten years, particularly in the use of new concepts. Implementation examples are provided with theoretical methods for testing in a real robot system. With these optimal sensor planning strategies, this book will give the robot vision system the adaptability needed in many practical applications.

Visual Sensor Network

Visual Sensor Network
Author: Fouad Sabry
Publisher: One Billion Knowledgeable
Total Pages: 105
Release: 2024-05-05
Genre: Computers
ISBN:

What is Visual Sensor Network A visual sensor network or smart camera network or intelligent camera network is a network of spatially distributed smart camera devices capable of processing, exchanging data and fusing images of a scene from a variety of viewpoints into some form more useful than the individual images. A visual sensor network may be a type of wireless sensor network, and much of the theory and application of the latter applies to the former. The network generally consists of the cameras themselves, which have some local image processing, communication and storage capabilities, and possibly one or more central computers, where image data from multiple cameras is further processed and fused. Visual sensor networks also provide some high-level services to the user so that the large amount of data can be distilled into information of interest using specific queries. How you will benefit (I) Insights, and validations about the following topics: Chapter 1: Visual Sensor Network Chapter 2: Computer Vision Chapter 3: Smartdust Chapter 4: Wireless Sensor Network Chapter 5: Smart Camera Chapter 6: Sensor Fusion Chapter 7: Edge Computing Chapter 8: Indoor Positioning System Chapter 9: Sensor Grid Chapter 10: Visual Privacy (II) Answering the public top questions about visual sensor network. (III) Real world examples for the usage of visual sensor network in many fields. Who this book is for Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of Visual Sensor Network.

Intelligentized Methodology for Arc Welding Dynamical Processes

Intelligentized Methodology for Arc Welding Dynamical Processes
Author: Shan-Ben Chen
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2008-10-20
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3540856420

Welding handicraft is one of the most primordial and traditional technics, mainly by manpower and human experiences. Weld quality and ef?ciency are, therefore, straitly limited by the welder’s skill. In the modern manufacturing, automatic and robotic welding is becoming an inevitable trend. However, it is dif?cult for au- matic and robotic welding to reach high quality due to the complexity, uncertainty and disturbance during welding process, especially for arc welding dynamics. The information acquirement and real-time control of arc weld pool dynamical process during automatic or robotic welding always are perplexing problems to both te- nologist in weld ?eld and scientists in automation. This book presents some application researches on intelligentized methodology in arc welding process, such as machine vision, image processing, fuzzy logical, neural networks, rough set, intelligent control and other arti?cial intelligence me- ods for sensing, modeling and intelligent control of arc welding dynamical process. The studies in the book indicate that the designed vision sensing and control s- tems are able to partially emulate a skilled welder’s intelligent behaviors: observing, estimating, decision-making and operating, and show a great potential and prom- ing prospect of arti?cial intelligent technologies in the welding manufacturing.