High-accuracy 3D image stitching for robot-based inspection systems

Marco Ulrich, Andreas Forstner, Gunther Reinhart

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Abstract

Robot-based inspection systems are flexible and fast, but lack the required accuracy due to the typically utilized industrial robots. While this contradiction is most often dealt with calibration of the robot or tracking of the tool, the presented approach will use neither. Instead, the gathered point clouds of the 3D sensor are stitched together in order to give a local reference in regard to the starting point of the robot's movement. For the application of inspecting sheet metal parts, plain and featureless component surfaces must be taken into account. Therefore a texture projection is applied to provide additional information to the stitching algorithm. The resulting procedure can be used to calculate the sensor's movement with high accuracy without the need to consider the used robot.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2015 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2015 - Proceedings
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages1011-1015
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781479983391
DOIs
StatePublished - 9 Dec 2015
EventIEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2015 - Quebec City, Canada
Duration: 27 Sep 201530 Sep 2015

Publication series

NameProceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP
Volume2015-December
ISSN (Print)1522-4880

Conference

ConferenceIEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2015
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityQuebec City
Period27/09/1530/09/15

Keywords

  • Image processing
  • Iterative closest point algorithm
  • Manufacturing industries
  • Robot vision systems

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