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Relationships-based recognition of structural industrial parts stacked in a bin*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2009

Youji Fukada ,
Hiroshi Doi ,
Keiji Nagemine  and
Tkahiko Inari
Youji Fukada
Affiliation:
Product Development Laboratory, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tsukaguchi-honmachi 8–1–1, Amagasaki 661 (Japan)
Hiroshi Doi
Affiliation:
Product Development Laboratory, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tsukaguchi-honmachi 8–1–1, Amagasaki 661 (Japan)
Keiji Nagemine
Affiliation:
Product Development Laboratory, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tsukaguchi-honmachi 8–1–1, Amagasaki 661 (Japan)
Tkahiko Inari
Affiliation:
Product Development Laboratory, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tsukaguchi-honmachi 8–1–1, Amagasaki 661 (Japan)
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Summary

This paper describes an algorithm which recognizes the position and the orientation of a structural industrial part, such as a crankshaft, utilizing the relationships between its elementary blobs. Crankshafts are arranged tightly and piled up in multiple layers and their image from above includes regions (i.e. pictures) of crankshafts not only of the current top layer but also of the lower ones; it thus becomes complicated. First, the algorithm carries out the connectivity analysis for an input binary image, and then extracts elementary blobs by applying a line fitting procedure on every sequence of boundary pixels of connected regions. Next, each blob is judged to determine to which component of a part it corresponds, using the size model. Then the relationships (distances and orientations) between blobs are examined, using their relational models, and a group of blobs of one part is recognized. Its position and orientation are calculated simultaneously. This model matching algorithm is implicitly included in the procedures.

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Robotica , Volume 2 , Issue 3 , July 1984 , pp. 147 - 154
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1984

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