{"title":"Development of a laser tracking system","authors":"C. Leigh-Lancaster, B. Shirinzadeh, Y. Koh","doi":"10.1109/MMVIP.1997.625316","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MMVIP.1997.625316","url":null,"abstract":"The measurement of the position and orientation of a robot end effector is the most critical issue for calibration of robotic devices. Calibration methods provide tools to improve the accuracy of robots without modification to the arm or its control architecture. However, such calibration techniques require a large number of accurate measurements. Dynamic measurement of position and orientation provides a solution to this problem and also allows dynamic calibration of robots thus improving dynamic accuracy. To develop dynamic measurement capability, the concept of laser tracking has recently applied to calibration of robots. This paper describes the development of a laser tracking system for dynamic measurement applications. The structure and system components are presented and the principle of laser tracking is described. The system will have applications in calibration as well as long range/remote guidance of fixed-base and mobile robots.","PeriodicalId":261635,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Fourth Annual Conference on Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice","volume":"299 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122794957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Design methodologies of shop-floor communication protocols based on FDL tools","authors":"P. Mario, F. Poza, M. Domínguez, J. Nogueira","doi":"10.1109/MMVIP.1997.625328","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MMVIP.1997.625328","url":null,"abstract":"In this work the real-time field bus PROFIBUS for industrial communication networks, is specified with the formal specification language LOTOS and its associated tools. The paper introduces the general characteristics of LOTOS and its related tools, and the main features of PROFIBUS particularly those related with its data link layer. The methodology and data types implemented are explained, with an instance of developed performance tests for the specification. With LOTOS specification of PROFIBUS protocol, FDL based techniques will contribute to achieve more accurate designs and fast prototyping in the field of industrial communications.","PeriodicalId":261635,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Fourth Annual Conference on Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice","volume":"98 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114402072","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"System for measurement of in-scrummage rugby forces","authors":"P. Strickland, G. Reid, A. Edmeads","doi":"10.1109/MMVIP.1997.625339","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MMVIP.1997.625339","url":null,"abstract":"Since the inception of rugby, the scrummage has been an integral and unique aspect of the sport. Similar to problems experienced in American football, neck and other serious injuries can occur when a scrummage collapses. In the short-term laws have been imposed on the game and certain precautions made at the level of rugby youth. The reason for a scrummage collapse and design of appropriate technology to increase the safety and performance of the rugby scrummage was investigated. The article describes a device developed to provide information about the distribution and magnitude of forces across a shoulder, and experimental results. A matrix of force sensors was integrated into a shoulder pad.","PeriodicalId":261635,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Fourth Annual Conference on Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice","volume":"100 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123412787","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An active vibration damping system of a driver's seat for off-road vehicles","authors":"K. Nevala, M. Jarviluoma","doi":"10.1109/MMVIP.1997.625239","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MMVIP.1997.625239","url":null,"abstract":"This paper covers the development of an active vibration damping system for the driver's seat. After a general description of the problem this paper first analyses the suspension mechanism and electrohydraulic system functions required in an active vibration damping. Secondly, the paper discusses the major features of an active vibration damping system, including control and measurement systems. Results from experimental tests are presented to show the performance of the active damping. The results are evaluated based on the ISO 2631/1-1985 Standard. These indicate, that an active system can provide considerable improvements in the vibration absorption when compared with a passive only seat damping.","PeriodicalId":261635,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Fourth Annual Conference on Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123875673","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Intelligent compliance control in anti-personnel mine detection","authors":"A. M. Shahri, F. Naghdy","doi":"10.1109/MMVIP.1997.625294","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MMVIP.1997.625294","url":null,"abstract":"At present there are approximately 110 million land-mines scattered around the world in 64 countries. The clearance of these mines takes place manually. Unfortunately, on average for every 5000 mines cleared one mine clearer is killed. An automatic mine detection device using mechatronics approach is under development in this work. The device imitates manual hand-prodding technique for mine detection. It inserts a bayonet into the soil and measures the stiffness variation in the soil to identify the mine. The movement of the bayonet is controlled by a force-based compliance control system. An adaptive neuro-fuzzy controller (ASMOD) is employed to adapt the gain of the force controller according to the stiffness coefficient variation of the environment. The developed system is validated through computer simulation.","PeriodicalId":261635,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Fourth Annual Conference on Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice","volume":"2015 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121335409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Research towards position control and touch sense in endoscopy","authors":"R. Stone, P. Brett, J. Tritto","doi":"10.1109/MMVIP.1997.625245","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MMVIP.1997.625245","url":null,"abstract":"Describes an experimental system under development to provide a teleoperated steerable tip endoscope than can be manipulated using a control skin placed over the users finger with force feedback to the user of forces encountered by the endoscope. The research has provided a method of building a tool with integral tactile sensing that can be manufactured from materials suitable for invasive operative use in surgery and can be sufficiently low-cost as to enable the device to be disposable. The system has shown promising results at this early stage in the work.","PeriodicalId":261635,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Fourth Annual Conference on Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131970352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Obstacle avoidance by changing running path for an autonomous running vehicle applying visual servoing","authors":"A. Gofuku, Y. Tanaka, Hiroyoshi Soda, I. Nagai","doi":"10.1109/MMVIP.1997.625301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MMVIP.1997.625301","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes an improved running control algorithm based on the visual servoing in consideration of the turning back of a running path to avoid an obstacle on the path by changing the running path. This paper also describes an experimental autonomous running vehicle to demonstrate the algorithm. As a vision sensor, the vehicle equips with a video-rate stereo rangefinder which processes color images from stereo CCD cameras and is developed in the authors' laboratory. From the several basic autonomous running experiments, it is concluded that the experimental vehicle runs smoothly any planned path composed of several teaching routes by transferring routes. It is also concluded that the vehicle can turn back on a path including turning back of route transference.","PeriodicalId":261635,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Fourth Annual Conference on Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127666608","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Parallel implementation of machine vision for aircraft navigation","authors":"I. A. Vinogradov, E.S. Lobusov, C.A. Pupkov","doi":"10.1109/MMVIP.1997.625332","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MMVIP.1997.625332","url":null,"abstract":"So called, correlational extreme navigation systems provide extra accuracy due to corrections made from external sources. In this work, a machine vision based navigation for low altitude air operation is considered. An approach to navigation based on utilising time-invariant features of aerial images, such as linear features of artificial or natural origin (roads, areal feature contours) is presented. Though, there are many works in the area of remote sensing about linear features detection, only a few of them consider \"live\" usage on board for service needs. Some theoretical aspects of using different navigation features considered, the algorithm and results of the processing are presented. Recommendations for future research are proposed.","PeriodicalId":261635,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Fourth Annual Conference on Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128782665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Initial calibration and alignment of an inertial navigation","authors":"E. Nebot, H. Durrant-Whyte","doi":"10.1109/MMVIP.1997.625318","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MMVIP.1997.625318","url":null,"abstract":"This work presents an efficient initial calibration and alignment algorithm for a six-degree of freedom inertial navigation unit. The individual error models for the gyros and accelerometers are presented with a study of its effects in trajectory prediction. A full error model is also presented to determine the sensors needed for full observability of the different perturbation parameters. Finally, dead reckoning experimental results are presented based on the initial alignment and calibration parameters. The results show that the algorithm proposed is able to obtain accurate position and velocity information for a significant period of time using an inertial measurement unit as the only sensor.","PeriodicalId":261635,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Fourth Annual Conference on Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice","volume":"4586 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115360710","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Inertial navigation aided with GPS information","authors":"E. Nebot, S. Sukkarieh, H. Durrant-Whyte","doi":"10.1109/MMVIP.1997.625317","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MMVIP.1997.625317","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a dynamic alignment algorithm for a six-degree of freedom inertial unit. A differential GPS is used as external sensor. It provides decorrelated range position and Doppler velocity information. A simplified error model valid for a local area is also presented. An indirect Kalman filter approach is used to fuse high frequency inertial information with low frequency GPS data. Experimental results are presented showing that the filter is able to predict high frequency manoeuvres as well as detect multipath errors in the GPS information.","PeriodicalId":261635,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Fourth Annual Conference on Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126224364","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}