Recognition technique for character cube stacking robot

Abstract

This article is about designing a robot that is able to interact and play with the alphabet blocks as well as a visual recognition technique for the robots to be able to recognize the blocks and the letters on the blocks. The background color of the blocks is white, and the letters on the blocks are in black, which creates a characteristic of isolating each target from the group. By using the quadrangle detection method mentioned in the article to obtain the position of each quadrangle face of each letter cube, and after filtering the shapes and other characteristics in order to obtain the possible area, the letter cube is able to be positioned and recognized from the background after implement template matching and sifting out the ratio scale of the color area. As for the interaction with the robot, the article has also presented the complete operation procedure from the recognition of the letter blocks' position, grabbing the blocks, locating the stocking platform, the correction of the position of the blocks, and piling the blocks. This allows the robot to have the interactive ability to search, grab, rotate, and pile the letter blocks based on the order of the inputted word.

Optimization on multi-robot workcell layout in vertical plane

“…In the 21st century, industrial robot is used extensively in many fields with the development of industrial technology, such as welding, drilling, assembly, transportation, cutting, spraying, measuring, stacking and laser processing [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12], especially in automobile industry. Consequently, how to improve working efficiency and shorten production cycle on the premise of quality assurance is one problem that's worth concerning for the application of industrial robot.…”