... Lasers SLAM Degeneration Dynamic threshold Intensive movement Self-adaptive The rest of the paper is organized as follows: related works are introduced in Section 2. Details of algorithm implementation are described in Section 3. The experimental results are shown in Section 4 with thorough...

... presents the modified visual odometer and the compensation to the ILBPT’s result. In Section 5, several experiments are conducted to prove the effectiveness of the proposed method. Mobile robot Pose tracking Error compensation Sensors Robotics Localization Lasers Most navigation...

...Jinyi Li; Zhenhui Du; Zheyuan Zhang; Limei Song; Qinghua Guo Purpose This paper aims to provide a sensor for fast, sensitive and selective ethylene (C₂H₄) concentration measurements. Design/methodology/approach The paper developed a sensor platform based on tunable laser...

...Qing Wang; Peng Huang; Jiangxiong Li; Yinglin Ke Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose an innovative method to extend the operating range of the laser tracking system and improve the accuracy and automation of boresighting by designing a measurement instrument. Boresighting...

... Group Publishing Limited 2014 Sensors Ultrasonic Roughness Fluorescent Hardness Lasers Sensors have always been a part of manufacturing going back to the time when they only meant taking linear measurements of lengths using a tape measure or a handheld micrometer. Today sensors...

..., which cannot be adopted in the registration. So, only the couples whose λ is get close to 1 will be considered as candidate pairs. Image processing Sensors Lasers Intelligent sensors LiDAR is widely used to produce digital surface models (DSMs), digital elevation models (DEMs...

... Sensors Packaging processes Vision X‐ray Lasers Load cells The most recent PackExpo Show featured more than 45 exhibitors of sensor technology. While this may not seem like a large number out of the more than 1,500 exhibitors, it does represent an important turnout of sensor technology...

... on a charge‐coupled device detector acquiring a laser illumination. The laser is projected on multitude of substrates with different reflectivities and surface profiles; while the scanning is progressed manually through a hand‐held setup. Findings The proposed software identifies the optical gap location...

... to reduce the user's cost of employing. Vibration Infra‐red devices Lasers X‐rays The wide range of sensor exhibitors at the Assembly Automation and Technology Show highlights how increasingly important sensor technology is in the manufacturing environment. Just making product cheaply...

...Robert Bogue Purpose This paper aims to provide a technical insight into recent developments in organic lasers and their applications to sensing. Design/methodology/approach Following a review of progress in organic lasers, this paper considers a number of recent sensor developments based...

... of specific examples. Reference is also made to certain new developments and research activities. Findings It is shown that both active and passive techniques are used to conduct 3D measurements. The former includes various forms of laser scanning such as time of flight, triangulation and phase...

...Mohammed Omar; Yi Zhou; Eric Planting; Rohit Parvataneni; Stephen Hung Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a combined scheme of active laser‐based triangulation and a morphological edge detection, to quantify features dimensions (width and depth) over smooth plastic surfaces...

... Electromagnetic radiation Lasers Security products Electromagnetic radiation ranging from γ‐rays through to radio waves, is used in a multitude of sensing applications. Likewise, several sectors of the spectrum are used for imaging, with well known examples including X‐radiography, infrared (IR...

...Richard Bloss Purpose This paper seeks to describe an innovative new technology for digitizing the shapes of 3D objects quickly and accurately, which uses accordion fringe interferometry (AFI). Design/methodology/approach Laser beams cast fringe patterns on objects, a digital camera captures...

...Walter Pastorius; Mike Snow Purpose This paper aims to use 3D laser sensors to collect high‐density data that are required for defect detection and localization at high‐production rates in manufacturing facilities. Design/methodology/approach The high‐speed sensors use Ethernet communications...

... in motorsports and aircraft manufacture. Then examines some new position sensors based on novel technology. Findings Optical techniques including lasers and linear encoding enable high precision position sensing over long distances. Laser scanning systems have some advantages over vision systems for pick...

... include: welding seam inspection;glue bead inspection; door edge detection; angle measurement; step and height measurement; planarity and surface control on PCBs; robot guidance and positioning; and groove width and depth measurement. Web site: www.micro-epsilon.co.uk Lasers Sensors...

...John Billingsley; John Mortimer Purpose To describe how Jaguar Cars in the UK is making use of a robot‐based intelligent adaptive metal inert gas (MIG) welding process incorporating laser diode measurement of the gap in the joint between the aluminium C‐pillars and the aluminium roof structure...

.../approach The RASCAL LIDAR system is based on a Nd:YAG laser which emits 0.5 J pulses of IR light at 1,064 nm and green light at 532 nm into the atmosphere at a rate of 20 Hz. The beam is steered by two 24‐inch mirrors and the backscattered signal is detected by a system based on high sensitivity avalanche...

... Along with distance information (z-axis), the controller also computes the true position along the laser line (x-axis) from the camera image and outputs both values in the sensor two-dimensional coordinate system. A moving object or a traversing sensor will generate three- dimensional...