제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집

Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems (제어로봇시스템학회)
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Measuring the volume of powder by vision

  • SeijiIshikawa (Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Tobata, Kitakyushu 804 Japan) ;
  • ShigeruHarada (Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Tobata, Kitakyushu 804 Japan) ;
  • HiroyukiYoshinaga (Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Tobata, Kitakyushu 804 Japan) ;
  • KiyoshiKato (Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Tobata, Kitakyushu 804 Japan)
  • Published : 1987.10.01
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Abstract

This paper describes a technique for measuring the volume of a pile of powder in a visual way. The volume of a fragile object whose shape is easily transformed by a slight touch of another object must be measured without any contact with it. This can be achieved by applying a three-dimensional shape reconstruction technique employed in computer vision. We have developed a measurement system that finds the volume of a pile of powder by employing a range finder, and performed an experiment of determining the volume of PVC powder piled on a table. The result of the experiment was satisfactory.

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