Computer Vision and Sensor-Based Robots

C.H. Dodd

Springer Science & Business Media, Dec 6, 2012 - Technology & Engineering - 353 pages

The goal ofthe symposium, "Computer Vision and Sensor-Based Robots," held at the General Motors Research Laboratories on September 2S and 26, 1978, was to stimulate a closer interaction between people working in diverse areas and to discuss fundamental issues related to vision and robotics. This book contains the papers and general discussions of that symposium, the 22nd in an annual series covering different technical disciplines that are timely and of interest to General Motors as well as the technical community at large. The subject of this symposium remains timely because the cost of computer vision hardware continues to drop and there is increasing use of robots in manufacturing applications. Current industrial applications of computer vision range from simple systems that measure or compare to sophisticated systems for part location determination and inspection. Almost all industrial robots today work with known parts in known posi tions, and we are just now beginning to see the emergence of programmable automa tion in which the robot can react to its environment when stimulated by visual and force-touch sensor inputs. As discussed in the symposium, future advances will depend largely on research now underway in several key areas. Development of vision systems that can meet industrial speed and resolution requirements with a sense of depth and color is a necessary step.

Contents

• PREFACE: 2
• Human and Robot Task Performance: 23
• Mechanisms of Perception: 51
• Artificial Intelligence and: 69
• Vision and Robot Systems: 79
• An Industrial Eye that Recognizes Hole: 101
• Adaptable Programmable Assembly Systems: 117
• Programmable Universal Machine for Assembly: 141
• Programmable Assembly Systems: 153
• Future Vision Systems: 167
• ThreeDimensional Computer Vision: 187
• Optical Computing for Image Processing: 207
• Prospects for Industrial Vision: 239
• Future Robot Systems: 261
• 75: 270
• Robot Assembly Research: 275
• Future Prospects for SensorBased Robots: 323
• Symposium Speakers and Chairmen: 335
• 79: 349

About the author

Charles Harold Dodd, a leading British New Testament scholar, was born in Wrexham, North Wales. Awarded a B.A. degree in classics at University College, Oxford, in 1906, Dodd engaged in further studies at the University of Berlin, where he pursued a research program in ancient history and archaeology, and at Mansfield College, Oxford, where he prepared himself in theology. After serving as minister of the Independent (Congregational) Church at Warwick (1912-15, 1918-19), he returned to Mansfield College as Yates Lecturer in New Testament. In 1930 he moved to Manchester University to become professor of biblical criticism and exegesis. Five years later he assumed the Norris-Hulse professorship at Cambridge University, where he taught until his retirement in 1949. In the following year, he embarked on a 15-year directorship of the New English Bible translation project. In recognition of his achievements, Dodd received from Queen Elizabeth the Companionship of Honour in 1963. In his slender but weighty study, The Apostolic Preaching and Its Developments (1936), Dodd discerns within the diverse strata of the New Testament a common unifying core, namely, the kerygma (preaching) of the primitive church. This core consisted of a sequence of events---the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth---in which God's glory was declared to have been disclosed. Thus, emerging Christianity embraced this as the decisive deed of God for humanity's salvation. For Dodd this kerygma theology is the theology of the New Testament. Dodd also advanced the study of biblical eschatology by uncovering in the parables of Jesus not an apocalyptic but a realized eschatology. Here he challenged Albert Schweitzer's claim that Jesus made no room for either apocalyptic or traditional eschatological ideas in his teaching. According to Dodd's reading of the New Testament, no future cataclysmic event would inaugurate the long-awaited kingdom of God.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Computer Vision and Sensor-Based Robots
• Author: C.H. Dodd
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media, 2012
• ISBN: 1461330270, 9781461330271
• Length: 353 pages
• Subjects: Computers / Artificial Intelligence / Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition; Technology & Engineering / Manufacturing; Technology & Engineering / Robotics