<title>Binary And Gray Scale Robot Vision</title>

Abstract

The use of industrial robots in a non-ideal environment requires sensors. A versatile general-purpose sensor is a machine vision system. Rather than attempting to review the capabilities of commercially available machine vision hardware, this paper examines the application of both binary and gray scale techniques to the sensory tasks associated with robot part acquisition, part inspection, and part reorientation. The utility of hybrid (mixed binary and gray scale) techniques in robot vision is illustrated.