Interfacing Image Processing with Robotic Sketching

In attempt to have a flexible manufacturing environment with adaptive control systems, several researchers tend to integrate vision systems into the industrial systems to achieve that objective; the majority of the research works that have been done in this perspective tend to keep this kind of integration fully automated. Along the same direction, this paper presents an approach for integrating Robotic Sketching and Path Planning with Image Processing, and it introduces at the same time the ability for operators to remotely control and monitor the processing stages. It has been accomplished using network based architecture consisting of a vision system together with a server, a client and an ABB industrial robot. The aims of this paper are: (1) to provide an example that illustrates the benefit of interfacing the image processing techniques with the industrial shop floor system, and (2) to develop a web based system that allows an operator to remotely monitor and control the stages of the application using Java based applet. Further analyses have been done for the processing times of the application; this helped us to address the problem that consumed the largest proportion of the processing time. The work that has been done in this research provides additional supervision ability for the integrated system, and it demonstrates some of the challenges and the obstacles that may face this kind of integration.
QCR 20170426