An active object recognition system for disassembly tasks

Büker, Ulrich; Drüe, Siegbert; Götze, Nicolai; Hartmann, Georg; Kalkreuter, Björn; Stemmer, Ralf; Trapp, Ralph

doi:10.1109/etfa.1999.815341

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“…As a result, the disassembly process becomes economically infeasible, especially in developed countries, since the labour‐cost is expensive. In order to overcome this problem, there are a number of attempts to automate the disassembly process (Büker et al , 1999, 2001, Torres et al , 2004, Tonko and Nagel, 2000, Merdan et al , 2010), so that high‐cost labour‐intensive disassembly activities can be replaced with low‐cost automated options. The uncertainties associated with EOL products have been problematic for human operators and even more so for automation due to the decision making and operating skills, as well as the high level of perception, required to disassemble the product.…”

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Basic behaviour control of the vision‐based cognitive robotic disassembly automation

Vongbunyong

Kara

Pagnucco

2013

Assembly Automation

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to develop an automated disassembly cell that is flexible and robust to the physical variations of a product. In this way it is capable of dealing with any model of product, regardless of the level of detail in the supplied information.Design/methodology/approachThe concept of cognitive robotics is used to replicate human level expertise in terms of perception and decision making. As a result, difficulties with respect to the uncertainties and variations of the product in the disassembly process are resolved.FindingsCognitive functions, namely reasoning and execution monitoring, can be used in basic behaviour control to address problems in variations of the disassembly process due to variations in the product's structure particularly across different models of the product.Research limitations/implicationsThe paper provides a practical approach to formulating the disassembly domain and behaviour control of the cognitive robotic agent via a high‐level logical programming language that combines domain‐specific heuristic knowledge with search to deal with variations in products and uncertainties that arise during the disassembly process.Practical implicationsFull disassembly automation that is flexible and robust to the uncertainties that may arise potentially replaces human labour in a difficult and hazardous task. Consequently, the disassembly process will be more economically feasible, especially in developed countries.Originality/valueThe paper provides a practical approach to the basic cognitive functions that replicate the human expert's behaviour to the disassembly cell.

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Basic behaviour control of the vision‐based cognitive robotic disassembly automation

Vongbunyong

Kara

Pagnucco

2013

Assembly Automation

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Vision-based integrated system for object inspection and handling

Pauli¹,

Schmidt²,

Sommer³

2001

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

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Cooperative agents for object recognition

Büker

Proceedings 15th International Conference on Pattern Recognition. ICPR-2000

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In this paper an agent-based object recognition system is described. It is used to observe, recognize, and localize objects with multiple cameras. Each camera is controlled by an agent, performing a recognition process, while communicating hypotheses and results with the other agents. Thus, they form a group of cooperative and collaborating agents, making the recognition results more robust. In addition, they are designed to immediately react on incoming information to speed up the recognition process.

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An active object recognition system for disassembly tasks

Cited by 5 publications

References 28 publications

Basic behaviour control of the vision‐based cognitive robotic disassembly automation

Basic behaviour control of the vision‐based cognitive robotic disassembly automation

Vision-based integrated system for object inspection and handling

Cooperative agents for object recognition

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