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Vision systems for robots had been widely applied at many important applications. But 3-D vision systems for industrial uses should face to many practical problems. Here, a vision system for bio-production has been introduced. Crone seedlings are one of the important applications of biotechnology. Most of the production processes of crone seedlings are highly automated, but the transplanting process of the small seedlings cannot be automated because the figures of small seedlings are not stable and to handle the seedlings it is required to observe the shapes of the small seedlings. In this research, a vision system for robot to be used for the transplanting process in a plant factory has been introduced.

To send a lunar landing module to the moon, it is requested to detect obstacles on the moon. It is requested to detect the 0.5 m height on the moon from 50 m high. To solve the problem, the relative stereo processing method has been introduced. The method measures the relative height from the surface of the moon. The shadows on the moon are detected from the left and right images of stereo cameras. The corresponding shadows of the left camera and the right camera are overlapped. After the overlapping, if there are some overlapping errors detected, the height of the object can be detected from the errors. The method is evaluated by the images generated by a simulation and proved its effectiveness.

To investigate the physiological role of a protein kinase, PKN, and its relation to apoptosis in vivo.An ischemia/reperfusion model of the rat retina was created by elevating the intraocular pressure. Retinal samples were obtained after ischemic insult (15-45 minutes) followed by reperfusion (1-7 days). The effect of ischemia on the fragmentation of PKN was examined by immunoblotting and immunocytochemical procedures using the antibody against PKN. N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) or a caspase-3 inhibitor (DEVD-CHO) was administered intravitreally to investigate its effect on the induction of PKN fragmentation. The retinal cell loss in each sample was evaluated by toluidine blue staining.Ischemia induced a 55-kDa PKN cleavage fragment corresponding to the molecular size of the constitutively active fragment of PKN. The appearance of the cleavage fragment depended on the duration of reperfusion and correlated with the occurrence of retinal cell loss. Immunocytochemical analysis revealed that ischemia increased PKN immunoreactivity in the inner layers of the retina. DEVD-CHO significantly inhibited the appearance of the 55-kDa fragment and protected against retinal cell loss. The administration of NMDA also induced cleavage of PKN.PKN is specifically cleaved by caspase-3 or a related protease during apoptosis in vivo, and PKN cleavage is at least partially initiated by activation of the NMDA receptor.