Robot Workspace Monitoring with Redundant Structured Light Cameras - A Preliminary Investigation

Hans Dermot Doran, Simon Marti

2014

Abstract

In this paper we propose the use of a redundant array of structured light scanning cameras to monitor a collaborative robot workspace. We present the model and suggest a minimum number of such cameras required to monitor a particular area. We then propose a concept for segmenting the workspace into different sub volumes to allow for different categories of obstacles. We then propose that a voting scheme will allow us to process multiple camera inputs in real-time in a safe fashion. We perform initial experiments and draw appropriate conclusions before defining further work.

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Dermot Doran H. and Marti S. (2014). Robot Workspace Monitoring with Redundant Structured Light Cameras - A Preliminary Investigation . In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: ICINCO, ISBN 978-989-758-040-6, pages 611-617. DOI: 10.5220/0005120306110617


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@conference{icinco14,
author={Hans Dermot Doran and Simon Marti},
title={Robot Workspace Monitoring with Redundant Structured Light Cameras - A Preliminary Investigation},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: ICINCO,},
year={2014},
pages={611-617},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005120306110617},
isbn={978-989-758-040-6},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: ICINCO,
TI - Robot Workspace Monitoring with Redundant Structured Light Cameras - A Preliminary Investigation
SN - 978-989-758-040-6
AU - Dermot Doran H.
AU - Marti S.
PY - 2014
SP - 611
EP - 617
DO - 10.5220/0005120306110617