Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice

By: John Billingsley (Editor), Robin Bradbeer (Editor)

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Hardcover | 7 December 2007

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From grading and preparing harvested vegetables to the tactile probing of a patient's innermost recesses, mechatronics has become part of our way of life. The addition of senses and computing intelligence to blend with mechanical actuation gives rise to a breed of new machines with all the best attributes of a robot.

Here we find educational robots competing under water and dancing on land. Surgical robots drill precision holes in the skull while others direct radiation treatment or extract blood from an umbilical cord. Machine vision manages beer kegs and automated paint spraying, while controlling feral animals and the watering of cotton crops.

Although there is no shortage of theoretical and technical detail in these chapters, they have the common theme that they describe work that has been applied in practice. They are vital reading both for students of mechatronics and for engineers harnessing its power to create new products.

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"The papers in this volume are vital reading both for students of mechatronics and for engineers harnessing its power to create new products. ... The collection of timely and significant papers on mechatronics will satisfy the most desperate of cravings, and many will find the treatment and presentation highly instructive and entertaining. It will enable many to gain the confidence they need to become informed, skilled practitioners in the field." (Current Engineering Practice, 2008)

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Education
Emergent Behaviour Real-time Programming of a Six-Legged Omni-Directional Mobile Robot: Planning of Viennese Waltz Behaviour	p. 3
The Hong Kong Underwater Robot Challenge	p. 17
Dynamics and Control of a VTOL Quad-Thrust Aerial Robot	p. 27
Project-oriented Low Cost Autonomous Underwater Vehicle with Servo-visual Control for Mechatronics Curricula	p. 41
Coordination in Mechatronic Engineering Work	p. 51
Vision Techniques
A Vision System for Depth Perception that Uses Inertial Sensing and Motion Parallax	p. 65
Rate Shape Identification Based on Particle Swarm Optimization	p. 77
Advanced 3D Imaging Technology for Autonomous Manufacturing Systems	p. 87
Vision Based Person Tracking and Following in Unstructured Environments	p. 99
Simple, Robust and Accurate Head-Pose Tracking Using a Single Camera	p. 111
Vision Applications
Machine Vision for Beer Keg Asset Management	p. 125
Millimetre Wave Radar Visualisation System: Practical Approach to Transforming Mining Operations	p. 139
An Underwater Camera and Instrumentation System for Monitoring the Undersea Environment	p. 167
Visual Position Estimation for Automatic Landing of a Tail-Sitter Vertical Takeoff and Landing Unmanned Air Vehicle	p. 181
Minutiae-based Fingerprint Alignment Using Phase Correlation	p. 193
Robotic Techniques
A Snake-like Robot for Inspection Tasks	p. 201
Modelling Pneumatic Muscles as Hydraulic Muscles for Use as an Underwater Actuator	p. 209
Automated Tactile Sensory Perception of Contact Using the Distributive Approach	p. 219
Blind Search Inverse Kinematics for Controlling All Types of Serial-link Robot Arms	p. 229
Medical Applications
Distributive Tactile Sensing Applied to Discriminate Contact and Motion of a Flexible Digit in Invasive Clinical Environments	p. 247
Intelligent Approach to Cordblood Collection	p. 255
An Autonomous Surgical Robot Applied in Practice	p. 261
Development of an Intelligent Physiotherapy System	p. 267
Visual Prostheses for the Blind: A Framework for Information Presentation	p. 275
Computer-based Method of Determining the Path of a HIFU Beam Through Tissue Layers from Medical Images to Improve Cancer Treatment	p. 289
Agricultural Applications
On-the-go Machine Vision Sensing of Cotton Plant Geometric Parameters: First Results	p. 305
Robotics for Agricultural Systems	p. 313
More Machine Vision Applications in the NCEA	p. 333
Authors	p. 345
Index	p. 347
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