Precise 3D lug pose detection sensor for automatic robot welding using a structured-light vision system

Sensors

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 7550-7565

  Park, Jae Byung ^a   Lee, Seung Hun ^a   Lee, Jae ^a  

^a Chonbuk National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Automatic robot welding; Lug pose detection; Structured light vision system

Indexed keywords

CAMERA IMAGES; DESIGN PARAMETERS; HOUGH TRANSFORM ALGORITHMS; ILLUMINATION CHANGES; POSE DETECTION; ROBOT WELDING; ROBUST DETECTION; STRUCTURED-LIGHT VISION;

ALIGNMENT; CAMERAS; COMPUTER VISION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; HOUGH TRANSFORMS; PRINTERS (COMPUTER); ROBOTS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WELDING;

SENSORS;

EID: 70350033771     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s90907550     Document Type: Article

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