• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.23 no.10
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• pp.1229-1235
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• 2020

A line parallel to the ground is frequently shown in our daily life, which enables us to guess its direction. Especially, such a guess tends to become clear when a vanishing line of the ground is shown together. In this paper, a vision based pallet measurement method is suggested, which uses a technique for estimating three-dimensional direction of a line parallel to the ground. The technique computes actually a vector heading to intersection of a given imaged line parallel to the ground and the ground vanishing line determined previously on calibrating a measurement camera. Through an experiment of measuring a real commercial pallet with various orientation and distance, we found that the technique could measure the orientation of the pallet correctly and accurately. The technique worked well even though an edge line available on the front plane of a pallet was almost parallel to the ground vanishing line.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.21 no.11
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• pp.1254-1262
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• 2018

Many parallel lines may be shown in our real life and they are useful for analyzing structure of objects or buildings. In this paper, a vision based technique for estimating three-dimensional direction of parallel lines is suggested, which uses a calibrated camera and is applicable to an image being captured from the camera. Correctness of the technique is theoretically described and discussed in this paper. The technique is well applicable to measurement of orientation of a pallet in a warehouse, because a pair of parallel lines is well detected in the front plane of the pallet. Thereby the technique enables a forklift with a well-calibrated camera to engage the pallet automatically. Such a forklift in a warehouse can engage a pallet on a storing rack as well as one on the ground. Usefulness of the suggested technique for other applications is also discussed. We conducted an experiment of measuring a real commercial pallet with various orientation and distance and found for the technique to work correctly and accurately.

• The Journal of Natural Sciences
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.87-93
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• 1992

A robotically assisted field material handling system designed for loading and unloading of a planar pallet with a forklift in unstructured field environment is presented. The system uses combined acoustic/visual sensing data to define the position/orientation of the pallet and to determine the specific locations of the two slots of the pallet, so that the forklift can move close to the slot and engage it for transport. In order to reduce the complexity of the material handling operation, we have developed a method based on the integration of 2-D range data of Poraloid ultrasonic sensor along with 2-D visual data of an optical camera. Data obtained from the two separate sources complements each other and is used in an efficient algorithm to control this robotically assisted field material handling system . Range data obtained from two linear scannings is used to determine the pan and tilt angles of a pallet using least mean square method. Then 2-D visual data is used to determine the swing angle and engagement location of a pallet by using edge detection and Hough transform techniques. The limitations of the pan and tilt orientation to be determined arc discussed. The system developed is evaluated through the hardware and software implementation. The experimental results are presented.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.18 no.10
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• pp.1444-1453
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• 1993

비 구조적인 주면 환경에서 평면 팔레트(planar pallet)를 포크리프트(forklift)로 적재하거나 하역하기 위한 물류용 재료운송 로보트 시스템을 제안한다. 제안한 시스템은 음향(acoustic)센서와 시각(visual) 센싱데이타를 사용하여 팔레트에 지정된 2개의 스롯(slot)의 위치를 결정하고 포크리프트를 팔레트의 스롯에 인게즈(engage) 한다. 본 연구에서는 재료운송 시스템의 복잡성을 줄이기 위해서 폴라로이드(Poraloid) 음향센서의 3차원 거리 데이터와 CCD 카메라에서 얻은 2차원 시각 네이타를 통합하는 방법을 개발한다. 2개의 다른 소스로부터 얻은 데이타는 서로의 미비점을 보안하며 재료운송 로보트 시스템을제어하기 위한 효율적인 알고리즘을 제공한다. 카메라는 far-away vision 개념에 의한 음향센서의 선형 스캔닝(scanning) 대역을 우선 결정한다. 선형 스캔닝에 의하여 얻어지는 거리 데이타(range Map)는 least mean square방법을 사용하여 팔레트의 위치와 자세(position and orientation)를 결정한다(near vision). 팔레트에 대한 위치와 자세가 결정되면 다시 시각센서를 이용하여(close vision) 에지(edge)탐지와 Hough transfrom 기술을 적용하여 팔레트에 대한 포크리프트의 인게이지먼트 위치를 구한다. 개발된 시스템은 하드웨어와 소프트웨어로 구현하고 평가하며 실험적인 결과도 제시한다.