A Microprocessor Controlled Visual Sensor for Industrial Robots

Abstract

The handling of initially disordered mechanical parts with a robot manipulator needs some procedure for orientating these parts. A simple microprocessor‐controlled TV‐sensor which enables an industrial robot to perform this function by measurement of orientation and position of the parts is described. Constraining the parts to a finite number of stable positions by mechanical devices preceding the visual sensor, restriction to binary images, processing of only a few information carrying TV‐lines and a simple recognition algorithm lead to an easily programmable microprocessor‐controlled visual sensor which accomplishes all practical requirements of flexibility, high speed, low memory size and low costs.

Citation

Bretschi, J. (1976), "A Microprocessor Controlled Visual Sensor for Industrial Robots", Industrial Robot, Vol. 3 No. 4, pp. 167-172. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb004470