... stability and bounds are determined, and its effectiveness is validated through peg-in-hole experiments. A low-frame-rate camera serves as a vision sensor for low-cost automation. Image processing and Python are used to detect vibrations in the object. Findings A pure wrist actuation control strategy...

... semantic information and detailed information of multi-scale feature layers to improve the accuracy of workpiece location. Machine vision Robot vision Image Processing Neural networks In the modern manufacturing industry, the tasks of grasping, sorting and assembling workpieces are heavy...

... © Emerald Publishing Limited 2021 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Robot vision Artificial intelligence Image processing Object tracking Siamese network Dynamic template Visual object tracking is one of the most important tasks in robot vision, which has...

... at: cuiying@zjut.edu.cn 31 10 2020 10 12 2020 02 02 2021 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2021 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Novelty detection Self-supervised learning Attention mechanism Artificial intelligence Image processing Novelty...

... Publishing Limited 2020 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Image processing Harvesting width Improved particle filtering Intelligent harvesting robot Texture feature The implementation of precision agriculture can effectively enhance productivity (Koutsos...

... at: ycj@zju.edu.cn 17 12 2019 22 07 2020 17 08 2020 18 08 2020 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2020 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Image processing Teleoperation Existing joint heatmap extraction approaches either investigate the pixel...

... performance of crop image processing. Findings The experimental results demonstrate that the improved random sampling consensus with an average success rate of 94.6% has higher reliability than the least square method, probabilistic Hough and traditional random sampling consensus detection. It can extract...

... Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Sensors Machine vision Image processing Image fusion Coefficient significance RDWT Energy of Laplacia Covariance where * represents convolution operation. RDWT eliminates down sampling and upsampling of coefficients during each filter-bank...

... an optical measurement system and also passive markers attached to the USA probe and to the drill. The system description, image processing, calibration procedures and results with simulated and real experiments are presented and described to illustrate the system in operation. Findings – The robotic...

... suitable target is automatically selected by a scoring system. Mario Andrei Garzon Oviedo can be contacted at: ma.garzon@upm.es © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Navigation Autonomous robots Image processing Field robotics Detection and tracking of pedestrians...

...Li Juan Yang; Pei Huang Lou; Xiao Ming Qian Purpose – The main purpose of this paper is to develop a method to recognize the initial welding position for large-diameter pipeline automatically, and introduce the image processing based on pulse-coupled neural network (PCNN) which is adopted...

... system for an automated water leak test was designed using an image processing system utilized by the robot. Design/methodology/approach – The “water leak test” in an automotive final assembly line is often a significant cost factor due to its labour-intensive nature. This is particularly the case...

... Group Publishing Limited 2015 Emerald Group Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Figure 6 The groove and arc image after threshold segmentation Figure 1 Image processing result by Prewitt operator in RANGMW The remainder of the paper is organized as follows...

... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Microassembly Image processing Coaxial alignment Meso-scale The purpose of this work is to design and develop 14-degree of freedom (DOF) robotic micromanipulator with which LIGA devices and axle hole part can be both manipulated and assembled...

... Limited 2015 Control Welding Image processing As a high-efficiency welding method, rotating arc narrow gap welding (NGW) (Wang et al., 2007) is accurate with its seam tracking to ensure enough penetration at both sides of the groove wall. Arc sensor is widely used in seam...

... I(x, y) are defined as: Equation 1 Du Dong can be contacted at: dudong@tsinghua.edu.cn © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Machine vision Seam tracking Image processing Invariant moment Weld detection Visual weld detection is of great significance...

... improved Canny algorithm was proposed to detect the edges of seam and pool, and extract the seam and pool characteristic parameters. Finally, the image processing precision was verified by the random welding experiments. Findings It was found that the seam and pool images can be clearly acquired...

... Adaptive image processing method was used for various types of weld seam. Also the relationship between welding height and arc signal was calibrated. Through the decomposition and synthesis, three‐dimensional space type weld seam could be extracted and tracked well. The workpiece without teaching...

...‐Cummings et al., 2002), but since complex image processing procedures are required to detect these patterns among many other environment objects, the power dissipation is usually high. Furthermore, the assignment of a certain ID‐tag to each marker requires additional processing and it is usually...

... is based on local image processing and detects the whole weld seam from a single image without giving any initial seam, which is insensitive to the variance of the background image and has low‐computation cost. Fanhuai Shi can be contacted at: fhshi@sjtu.edu.cn Robotics Welding Seam welding...