“…The sensors employed in most previous studies are standard BW or colour CCD cameras, typically positioned on the body of the robot or the main platform to provide a single view on the scene being analysed (Bulanon et al, 2001(Bulanon et al, , 2002Bulanon and Kataoka, 2010;Okamoto and Lee, 2010;Zhao et al, 2005). Less frequent are systems with a camera placed on the robot's end effector (Hayashi et al, 2002;Ling et al, 2004) while in still fewer cases the system employs both types of cameras to enjoy global view of the scene and a gripper-centred close-up view on specific targets (Edan et al, 2000;Feng et al, 2008;Van Henten et al, 2002;Yuan et al, 2010).…”