Tracking applications using distributed sensor networks are emerging today, both in the field of surveillance (airports, train stations, museums, public spots) and industrial vision (visual servoing, factory automation). Traditional centralized approaches offer several drawbacks, due to limited communication bandwidth, computational requirements and thus also limited spatial camera resolution a...

The integrated automation system consisting of production process management system, optimal system of production indices and process control system is established for the optimization of production indices of minerals processing. The structure and functions of this system are discussed. The optimal control strategy for production indices is proposed to transform the target of production indice...

In this paper, we propose a system for vision guided autonomous circumnavigation, allowing robots to navigate around objects of arbitrary pose. The system performs knowledge-based object recognition from an intensity image using a canonical viewer-centred model. A path planned from a geometric model then guides the robot in circum-navigating the object. This system can be used in many applicati...

Abstract—The importance of energy efficiency within the production processes increases steadily. For a comprehensive assessment of energy efficiency within the production process, unfortunately no tools exist or have been developed yet. Therefore the Institute for Factory Automation and Production Systems at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg has developed two methods with th...

Automatic equipment for cigarette sorting and stacking is applied to a recycling process of tobacco in cigarette factory. It takes the place of manual work, such as sorting and stacking cigarettes to transfer boxes. The equipment realizes the functions such as orientation, sorting, steering, and stacking of the cigarettes in proper order. Omron CP1H type PLC is selected as the control center of...

The statistics of the neighborhood gradients in an image can yield useful descriptions of target features. This paper presents a new approach on auto-correlation relaxation algorithm by using those features to match image clips. This method is iterative and begins with the detection of all potential correspondence pairs. Each pair of matching points is assigned a number representing the probabi...

ISA100.11 covers five classes of use taking in applications as diverse as factory automation, location services and logistics. However the process industries are the vanguard users of ISA100.11-based systems. When discussing specific performance characteristics, we will consider ISA100.11a systems and hardware as implemented by Honeywell marketed under the name OneWireless for the worked exampl...

Increasing factory throughput is a critical issue in the semiconductor industry, and a quick transition of material to the next location in the automation system plays a significant role in increasing throughput. A dynamic pathfinding algorithm for a vehicle-based automated material handling system (AMHS) is discussed in this paper. The dynamic path-finding algorithm uses distance between nodes...

Linear actuation plays a critical role in a wide range of products and processes in factory automation, packaging, medical devices, and many other fields. Linear actuators are commonly divided into two main types: fluid power actuators that operate on differential pressure and electromechanical actuators driven by an electric motor. The type of actuator used plays a critical role in the machine...

We describe the design and partial implementation of a real time architecture for a mobile robot, aimed particularly towards a vehicle developed for factory automation.. We develop a layered design to equip the robot with a number of behavioural competences. We examine sensing and a potential field algorithm especially to achieve modification of behaviour a t a speed close to the robot’s operat...