Title
Recognition and Pose Estimation of Auto Parts for an Autonomous Spray Painting Robot
Abstract
The autonomous operation of industrial robots with minimal human supervision has always been in high demand. To prepare the autonomous operation of a car part spray painting robot, novel object detection, and pose estimation algorithms have been developed in this paper. The object detection part used principal components analysis (PCA) to reduce the dimension of three-dimensional (3-D) point cloud to 2-D binary image. Distance measure between the auto and cross correlation of the binary features was established to find out the similarity between them. Resultantly, the type of auto part was successfully obtained. Furthermore, iterative closest point (ICP) algorithm was used to estimate the pose difference of the auto part with respect to the camera reference frame, which was mounted on the robot. An issue with ICP's lack of robustness to local minimum was solved by the combination of ICP and genetic algorithm (GA). This allowed the optimization of pose error and addressed the problem of local minimum entrapment in ICP. For experimental validation: the proposed object recognition pipeline was implemented in both serial and parallel programming paradigms. The results were obtained for the acquired point clouds of side body car parts and compared with the major 3-D object detection systems in terms of computational cost. Pose estimation error was calculated with both ICP and the modified point set registration schemes, and it was shown to be decreasing in the case of later. All shown results supported the research claims.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/TII.2018.2882446
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Three-dimensional displays,Robots,Iterative closest point algorithm,Automobiles,Object recognition,Pipelines,Pose estimation
Object detection,Computer vision,Point set registration,Computer science,Binary image,Pose,Real-time computing,Robustness (computer science),Artificial intelligence,Point cloud,Robot,Iterative closest point
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
15
3
1551-3203
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Wei-Yang Lin144039.39
Ali Anwar211314.83
Zhan Li3469.00
Mingsi Tong4114.94
Jianbin Qiu52787117.87
Huijun Gao68923416.93