Robot guidance using machine vision techniques in industrial environments: A comparative review

In the factory of the future, most of the operations will be done by autonomous robots that need visual feedback to move around the working space avoiding obstacles, to work collaboratively with humans, to identify and locate the working parts, to complete the information provided by other sensors to improve their positioning accuracy, etc. Different vision techniques, such as photogrammetry, stereo vision, structured light, time of flight and laser triangulation, among others, are widely used for inspection and quality control processes in the industry and now for robot guidance. Choosing which type of vision system to use is highly dependent on the parts that need to be located or measured. Thus, in this paper a comparative review of different machine vision techniques for robot guidance is presented. This work analyzes accuracy, range and weight of the sensors, safety, processing time and environmental influences. Researchers and developers can take it as a background information for their future works

Automatic System to Detect Both Distraction and Drowsiness in Drivers Using Robust Visual Features

[ES] De acuerdo con un reciente estudio publicado por la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS), se estima que 1.25 millones de personas mueren como resultado de accidentes de tráfico. De todos ellos, muchos son provocados por lo que se conoce como inatención, cuyos principales factores contribuyentes son tanto la distracción como la somnolencia. En líneas generales, se calcula que la inatención ocasiona entre el 25% y el 75% de los accidentes y casi-accidentes. A causa de estas cifras y sus consecuencias se ha convertido en un campo ampliamente estudiado por la comunidad investigadora, donde diferentes estudios y soluciones han sido propuestos, pudiendo destacar los métodos basados en visión por computador como uno de los más prometedores para la detección robusta de estos eventos de inatención. El objetivo del presente artículo es el de proponer, construir y validar una arquitectura especialmente diseñada para operar en entornos vehiculares basada en el análisis de características visuales mediante el empleo de técnicas de visión por computador y aprendizaje automático para la detección tanto de la distracción como de la somnolencia en los conductores. El sistema se ha validado, en primer lugar, con bases de datos de referencia testeando los diferentes módulos que la componen. En concreto, se detecta la presencia o ausencia del conductor con una precisión del 100%, 90.56%, 88.96% por medio de un marcador ubicado en el reposacabezas del conductor, por medio del operador LBP, o por medio del operador CS-LBP, respectivamente. En lo que respecta a la validación mediante la base de datos CEW para la detección del estado de los ojos, se obtiene una precisión de 93.39% y de 91.84% utilizando una nueva aproximación basada en LBP (LBP_RO) y otra basada en el operador CS-LBP (CS-LBP_RO). Tras la realización de varios experimentos para ubicar la cámara en el lugar más adecuado, se posicionó la misma en el salpicadero, pudiendo aumentar la precisión en la detección de la región facial de un 86.88% a un 96.46%. Las pruebas en entornos reales se realizaron durante varios días recogiendo condiciones lumínicas muy diferentes durante las horas diurnas involucrando a 16 conductores, los cuales realizaron diversas actividades para reproducir síntomas de distracción y somnolencia. Dependiendo del tipo de actividad y su duración, se obtuvieron diferentes resultados. De manera general y considerando de forma conjunta todas las actividades se obtiene una tasa media de detección del 93.11%.[EN] According to the most recent studies published by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2013, it is estimated that 1.25 million people die as a result of traffic crashes. Many of them are caused by what it is known as inattention, whose main contributing factors are both distraction and drowsiness. Overall, it is estimated that inattention causes between 25% and 75% of the crashes and near-crashes. That is why this is a thoroughly studied field by the research community, where solutions to combat distraction and drowsiness, in particular, and inattention, in general, can be classified into three main categories, and, where computer vision has clearly become a non-obtrusive effective tool for the detection of both distraction and drowsiness. The aim of this paper is to propose, build and validate an architecture based on the analysis of visual characteristics by using computer vision techniques and machine learning to detect both distraction and drowsiness in drivers. Firstly, the modules have been tested with all its components independently using several datasets. More specifically, the presence/absence of the driver is detected with an accuracy of 100%, 90.56%, 88.96% by using a marker positioned onto the headrest, the LBP operator and the CS-LBP operator, respectively. Regarding the eye closeness validation with CEW dataset, an accuracy of 93.39% and 91.84% is obtained using a new method using both LBP (LBP_RO) and CS-LBP (CS-LBP_RO). After performing several tests, the camera is positioned on the dashboard, increasing the accuracy of face detection from 86.88% to 96.46%. In connection with the tests performed in real-world settings, 16 drivers were involved performing several activities imitating different sings of sleepiness and distraction. Overall, an accuracy of 93.11%is obtained considering all activities and all drivers.El origen de las actividades del presente trabajo ha sido realizado parcialmente gracias al apoyo tanto de la Fundación para el fomento en Asturias de la investigación científica aplicada y la tecnología (FICYT) y de la empresa SINERCO SL, por medio de la ejecución del proyecto "Creación de algoritmos de visión artificial ", con referencia IE09-511.El presente trabajo se engloba en la tesis doctoral de Alberto Fernández Villán.Fernández Villán, A.; Usamentiaga Fernández, R.; Casado Tejedor, R. (2017). Sistema Automático Para la Detección de Distracción y Somnolencia en Conductores por Medio de Características Visuales Robustas. 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Evaluation of Dust Deposition on Parabolic Trough Collectors in the Visible and Infrared Spectrum

Solar energy is mostly harnessed in arid areas where a high concentration of atmospheric dust represents a major environmental degradation factor. Gravitationally settled particles and other solid particles on the surface of the photovoltaic panels or thermal collectors greatly reduce the absorbed solar energy. Therefore, frequent cleaning schedules are required, consuming high quantities of water in regions where water precipitation is rare. The efficiency of this cleaning maintenance is greatly improved when methods to estimate the degree of cleanness are introduced. This work focuses on the need for better detecting the degradation created by dust deposition, considering experimental data based on different air pollutants, and analyzing the resulting thermal and visible signatures under different operating environments. Experiments are performed using six different types of pollutants applied to the surface of parabolic trough collectors while varying the pollutant density. The resulting reflectivity in the visible and infrared spectrum is calculated and compared. Results indicate that the pollutants can be distinguished, although the reflectivity greatly depends on the combination of the particle size of the pollutant and the applied amount, with greater impact from pollutants with small particles