• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.317-325
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• 2022

In this study, we propose a technological system designed to provide machine vision-based automatic inspection and autonomous operation services for an entire process related to product inspection in wire harness manufacturing. The smart factory paradigm is a valuable and necessary goal, small companies may encounter steep barriers to entry. Therefore, the best approach is to develop towards this approach gradually in stages starting with the relatively simple improvement to manufacturing processes, such as replacing manual quality assurance stages with machine vision-based inspection. In this study, we consider design issues of a system based on the proposed technology and describe an experimental implementation. In addition, we evaluated the implementation of the proposed technology. The test results show that the adoption of the proposed machine vision-based automatic inspection and operation service system for multi-wire harness production may be considered justified, and the effectiveness of the proposed technology was verified.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제13권8호
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• pp.1601-1607
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• 2009

비전 시스템은 카메라를 통하여 획득한 이미지 정보를 캡쳐 후, 이를 분석하여 물체를 인식하는 것으로서, 차종 분류를 포함 한 다양한 산업현장에서 사용하고 있다. 이런 필요성으로 인하여 차종 분류를 위한 많은 연구가 이루어지고 있으나 복잡한 계산과정으로 인하여 처리 시간이 많이 소요되는 단점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 임베디드 시스템을 기반으로 하는 Vision Box를 설계하고 이를 사용한 차종인식 시스템을 제안하였다. 제안한 Vision Box의 성능을 자동차의 차종분류를 통한 사전 테스트 결과 최적 화된 환경 조건에서는 100%의 차종별 인식률을 보였으며, 조명 및 회전의 작은 변화에 따른 테스트에서 차종인식은 가능하였으나, 패턴점수가 낮아졌다. 제안한 Vision Box 시스템을 산업 현장에 적용한 결과 처리시간, 인식률 등에서 산업체의 요구 조건을 만족 할 수 있음을 확인할 수 일었다.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.585-599
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• 2016

Steel cables serve as the key structural components in long-span bridges, and the force state of the steel cable is deemed to be one of the most important determinant factors representing the safety condition of bridge structures. The disadvantages of traditional cable force measurement methods have been envisaged and development of an effective alternative is still desired. In the last decade, the vision-based sensing technology has been rapidly developed and broadly applied in the field of structural health monitoring (SHM). With the aid of vision-based multi-point structural displacement measurement method, monitoring of the tensile force of the steel cable can be realized. In this paper, a novel cable force monitoring system integrated with a multi-point pattern matching algorithm is developed. The feasibility and accuracy of the developed vision-based force monitoring system has been validated by conducting the uniaxial tensile tests of steel bars, steel wire ropes, and parallel strand cables on a universal testing machine (UTM) as well as a series of moving loading experiments on a scale arch bridge model. The comparative study of the experimental outcomes indicates that the results obtained by the vision-based system are consistent with those measured by the traditional method for cable force measurement.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제20권7호
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• pp.741-749
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• 2014

This paper proposes a machine vision module for PLCs (Programmable Logic Controllers). PLC is the industrial controller most widely used in factory automation system. However most of the machine vision systems are based on PC (Personal Computer). The machine vision system embedded in PLC is required to reduce the cost and improve the convenience of implementation. In this paper, we newly propose a machine vision module based on PLC. The image processing libraries are implemented and integrated with the PLC programming tool. In order to interface the libraries with ladder programming, the ladder instruction set was also designed for each vision library. By use of the developed system, PLC users can implement vision systems easily by ladder programming. The developed system was applied to sample inspection system to verify the performance. The experimental results show that the proposed system can reduce the cost of installing as well as increase the ease-of-implementation.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제24권6호
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• pp.769-781
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• 2019

Dynamic displacement response of civil structures is an important index for in-construction and in-service structural condition assessment. However, accurately measuring the displacement of large-scale civil structures such as high-rise buildings still remains as a challenging task. In order to cope with this problem, a vision-based system with the use of industrial digital camera and image processing has been developed for long-distance, remote, and real-time monitoring of dynamic displacement of supertall structures. Instead of acquiring image signals, the proposed system traces only the coordinates of the target points, therefore enabling real-time monitoring and display of displacement responses in a relatively high sampling rate. This study addresses the in-situ experimental verification of the developed vision-based system on the Canton Tower of 600 m high. To facilitate the verification, a GPS system is used to calibrate/verify the structural displacement responses measured by the vision-based system. Meanwhile, an accelerometer deployed in the vicinity of the target point also provides frequency-domain information for comparison. Special attention has been given on understanding the influence of the surrounding light on the monitoring results. For this purpose, the experimental tests are conducted in daytime and nighttime through placing the vision-based system outside the tower (in a brilliant environment) and inside the tower (in a dark environment), respectively. The results indicate that the displacement response time histories monitored by the vision-based system not only match well with those acquired by the GPS receiver, but also have higher fidelity and are less noise-corrupted. In addition, the low-order modal frequencies of the building identified with use of the data obtained from the vision-based system are all in good agreement with those obtained from the accelerometer, the GPS receiver and an elaborate finite element model. Especially, the vision-based system placed at the bottom of the enclosed elevator shaft offers better monitoring data compared with the system placed outside the tower. Based on a wavelet filtering technique, the displacement response time histories obtained by the vision-based system are easily decomposed into two parts: a quasi-static ingredient primarily resulting from temperature variation and a dynamic component mainly caused by fluctuating wind load.

• 한국공작기계학회논문집
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• 제15권5호
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• pp.37-43
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• 2006

The target of this study is development of web based mold discrimination system by matching vision information with CAD database. The use of 2D vision image makes possible speedy mold discrimination from many databases. The image processing such as preprocessing, cleaning is done for obtaining vivid image with object information. The web-based system is a program which runs to exchange messages between a server and a client by making of ActiveX control and the result of mold discrimination is shown on web-browser. For effective feature classification and extraction, signature method is used to make sensible information from 2D data. As a result, the possibility of proposed system is shown as matching feature information from vision image with CAD database samples.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 1997년도 한국자동제어학술회의논문집; 한국전력공사 서울연수원; 17-18 Oct. 1997
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• pp.605-607
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• 1997

According to the way of the robot control, the robot systems of all the teams which participate in the MIROSOT can be divided into three categories : the remote brainless system, the vision-based system and the robot-based system. The MIRAGE I robot control system uses the last one, the robot-based system. In the robot-based system the host computer with the vision system transmits the data on only the location of the ball and the robots. Based on this robot control method, we took part in the MIROSOT '96 and the MIROSOT '97.

• 한국정보기술응용학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보기술응용학회 2005년도 6th 2005 International Conference on Computers, Communications and System
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• pp.285-288
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• 2005

We propose a novel programmable miniature vision module based on a custom designed analog VLSI (aVLSI) chip. The vision module consists of the optical flow vision sensor embedded with commercial off-the-shelves digital hardware; in our case is the Intel XScale PXA270 processor enforced with a programmable gate array device. The aVLSI sensor provides gray-scale imager data as well as smooth optical flow estimates, thus each pixel gives a triplet of information that can be continuously read out as three independent images. The particular computational architecture of the custom designed sensor, which is fully parallel and also analog, allows for efficient real-time estimations of the smooth optical flow. The Intel XScale PXA270 controls the sensor read-out and furthermore allows, together with the programmable gate array, for additional higher level processing of the intensity image and optical flow data. It also provides the necessary standard interface such that the module can be easily programmed and integrated into different vision systems, or even form a complete stand-alone vision system itself. The low power consumption, small size and flexible interface of the proposed vision module suggests that it could be particularly well suited as a vision system in an autonomous robotics platform and especially well suited for educational projects in the robotic sciences.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.191-197
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• 2007

본 연구의 목적은 카메라를 통하여 획득한 이미지 정보를 캡쳐 후, 이를 분석하여 물체의 동작을 인식하는 Vision Box를 설계하는데 목적이 있다. 본 연구는 고객 즉, 사용자의 요구조건을 최대한 반영하여 구현하고자 하였다. 구현하고자 하는 Vision Box 시스템은 특별한 외부의 부가적인 센서를 사용하지 않고 카메라를 통하여 들어오는 화상 정보만을 분석하여 물체를 식별할 수 있도록 하였다. 그리고 PLC와의 통신과 원격지에서 Vision Box를 제어 할 수 있는 방법도 지원할 수 있도록 하였다. 본 연구에서 제안한 Vision Box의 성능을 자동차의 차종분류를 통한 성능분석 결과 최적화 된 환경조건에서는 100%의 차종별 인식률을 보였으며, 조명 및 잡음과 회전의 작은 변화에 따른 테스트에서 차종인식은 가능하였으나, 패턴점수가 낮아졌다. 따라서 제안한 Vision Box 시스템이 다양한 산업분야에 적용될 수 있을 것이라 생각된다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 1987년도 한국자동제어학술회의논문집; 한국과학기술대학, 충남; 16-17 Oct. 1987
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• pp.101-104
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• 1987

This paper shows the robot-vision system which consists of robot, vision system, single board computer and IBM-PC. IBM-PC based system has a great flexibility in expansion for a vision system interfacing. Easy human interfacing and great calculation ability are the benefits of this system. It was carried to interface between each component. The calibration between two coordinate systems is studied. The robot language for robot-vision system was written in "C" language. User also can write job program in "C" language in which the robot and vision related functions reside in the library.side in the library.