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Robot Vision Systems and Applications

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Vision and Information Processing for Automation

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Abstract

The conceptual structure of a robot vision system is shown in Figure 9.1. The object under consideration, together with the world around it, is scanned by the input unit of the vision system, and possibly examined by other types of sensors, and the outputs from these actions are passed to processors.(1) The principal task of the processors is to extract the information that is important from the usually much greater information that is redundant. The extracted information passes to the main control unit which holds a model of the world appropriate to the whole robotic system and has the program to execute the required process. It converts the information into the form required by the controller of the robot and of other mechanical systems. The main controller is aided in its task by a priori knowledge of the world, of the parameters of the sensing and actuating systems, and of the objects on which the system is to operate.

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Browne, A., Norton-Wayne, L. (1986). Robot Vision Systems and Applications. In: Vision and Information Processing for Automation. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2028-7_9

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