Title
Advanced safety sensor for gate automation
Abstract
This paper presents a vision-based method able to increase safety in access automation systems. These systems include automatic swing and sliding gates, bollards and barriers to prevent unwanted access. In current installations the anti-crushing protection is ensured by an electronic device installed on the control boards, which directly controls drive torque, and a couple of infrared photodetectors: when an obstacle is touched by the gate leafs or barriers, or cuts the infrared beam, the control board stops the gate movement. Conversely, the new method proposed in this paper avoids collisions with obstacles and increases the overall detection performance. The new device returns a stop signal when an obstacle is present in a predefined area. The algorithm has been integrated in a real access system to test its performance.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2011
ICIAP (2)
electronic device,infrared photodetectors,gate movement,gate automation,advanced safety sensor,gate leaf,real access system,control board,new device,infrared beam,unwanted access,access automation system,stereo vision
Field
DocType
Volume
Obstacle,Computer vision,Change control board,Torque,Simulation,Stereopsis,Computer science,Automation,Photodetector,Artificial intelligence,Electrical engineering,Swing
Conference
6979
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
II
0302-9743
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.48
5
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Luca Bombini162.11
Alberto Broggi21527178.28
Stefano Debattisti3192.34