Computer Vision News - February 2018

8 Computer Vision News Machine Vision for Robotics Every month, Computer Vision News reviews a successful project. Our main purpose is to show how diverse image processing applications can be and how the different techniques contribute to solving technical challenges and physical difficulties. This month we review RSIP Vision’s approach to Machine Vision for Robots and our experience in Robotics projects . RSIP Vision’s engineers can assist you in countless application fields. Get effective R&D consulting from our experts now! Project “Programmed robots use machine vision to verify their action and they use machine vision to make sure that their mission is carried successfully” Robots performing human tasks in human environment are mostly built to resemble humans; robots doing other tasks, like car assembly, object picking, sorting and the like, generally take any form which is optimal to their function. Another distinction we need to do is between pre-programmed robots in charge of repetitive tasks and robots that handle events, like navigation, picking, and so on. Programmed robots use machine vision to verify their action: they know what to do - in predefined sequence - and they use machine vision to make sure that their mission is carried successfully. An example in industrial robotics is robot welding, which includes a post- welding analysis phase during which a camera is used to verify that the work was executed correctly. Robots facing events, which cannot be programmed using some routine sequence, use machine vision to build a dynamic map of the real world, i.e. their surrounding environment. This map helps them avoid obstacles, navigate as needed, recognize objects which need to be picked, removed or sorted, and so on. “Robots use machine vision to build a dynamic map of the real world”