Computer vision barrel inspection

William J. Wolfe; James Gunderson; Matthew E. Walworth

doi:10.1117/12.167488

1 February 1994 Computer vision barrel inspection

William J. Wolfe, James Gunderson, Matthew E. Walworth

Proceedings Volume 2058, Mobile Robots VIII; (1994) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.167488
Event: Optical Tools for Manufacturing and Advanced Automation, 1993, Boston, MA, United States

Abstract

One of the Department of Energy's (DOE) ongoing tasks is the storage and inspection of a large number of waste barrels containing a variety of hazardous substances. Martin Marietta is currently contracted to develop a robotic system -- the Intelligent Mobile Sensor System (IMSS) -- for the automatic monitoring and inspection of these barrels. The IMSS is a mobile robot with multiple sensors: video cameras, illuminators, laser ranging and barcode reader. We assisted Martin Marietta in this task, specifically in the development of image processing algorithms that recognize and classify the barrel labels. Our subsystem uses video images to detect and locate the barcode, so that the barcode reader can be pointed at the barcode.

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William J. Wolfe, James Gunderson, and Matthew E. Walworth "Computer vision barrel inspection", Proc. SPIE 2058, Mobile Robots VIII, (1 February 1994); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.167488

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