Real-Time Part Position Sensing

Abstract

A light stripe vision system is used to measure the location of polyhedral features of parts from a single frame of video camera output. The geometric conditions which assure location of the feature when the light plane intersects three of the feature's faces are given. Issues such as accuracy in locating the line segments of intersection in the image and combining redundant information from multiple measurements and multiple sources are addressed. In 2. 5 seconds, a prototype sensor was capable of locating a two inch cube to an accuracy (one standard deviation) of .002 inches (.055 mm) in translation and .1 degrees (.0015 radians) in rotation. When integrated with a manipulator, the system was capable of performing high precision assembly tasks.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1988
Accession Number
ADA203580

Entities

People

  • Steven J. Gordon
  • Warren P. Seering

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Calibration
  • Computational Science
  • Computer Science
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Errors
  • Estimators
  • Geometry
  • Information Processing
  • Information Science
  • Light Sources
  • Measurement
  • Orientation (Direction)
  • Range Finding
  • Standards
  • Three Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Computer Vision.
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Geodesy