Bin-picking method using stereo vision

This paper presents a Bin-Picking method in which robot recognizes the positions and orientations of unoccluded objects at the top of jumbled objects placed in a bin, and picks up the unoccluded objects one by one from the jumble. A method using feasible region, painting, and hierarchical test is introduced for recognizing the unoccluded objects from the jumbled objects. The 3D information is obtained using the bipartite-matching method which finds the least difference of 3D by comparing vertexes of one camera with vertexes of the other camera, then hypothesis and test are done. The working order of unoccluded objects is made based on 3D, position, and orientation information. The robot picks up the unoccluded objects from the jumbled objects according to the working order. This all process continues to the empty bin.