Robot Vision --20-265-639-901

          Spring Quarter 2000

          Thursday, 6:00 - 8:30 PM, Room 841 Baldwin

          Instructor: Professor Ernest L. Hall, Room 659 Baldwin

Phone: 556-2730, FAX: 556-3390, Email: Ernie.Hall@uc.edu, Pager: 249-3197

          Office Hours: Tuesday & Thursday, 4-6:00 PM

Required Text: B.K.P. Horn, Robot Vision, McGraw-Hill, 1986;

Reference: E.L. Hall, Computer Image Processing and Recognition, Academic Press, 1979. Supplemental course notes will be provided.

 

Laboratory Project: A class project is conducted individually using either the KHOROS image processing system or the MATLAB Image Processing Toolbox. Other facilities such as manufacturing cells consisting of industrial robots, vision systems and computer facilities are also available. This project requires about 10% of the student's time for the course. An oral presentation and Powerpoint slide show report are required for a machine vision application.

 

Grading System: Quiz 1 OPEN BOOK      20%; Quiz 2 CLOSED BOOK 20%; Final 20%; Project Report 20%; Homework 20%.

 

Topics: Robot intelligence concepts and definitions, two and three dimensional machine vision, heuristic problem solving techniques, programming and sensing for control, tactile sensors, applications of intelligent robot systems in flexible manufacturing.

 

Lecture               Date                                                  Description

1.                          3/30/2000                                          Human and Machine Vision

  • Machine Vision Paper

    • 2.                          4/6/2000                                            Lighting and Optics

    3.                          4/13/2000                                          Edge Detection

    4.                          4/20/2000                                          Segmentation, Quiz 1

  • Frame Grabber Project

    • 5.                          4/27/2000                                          Object Location

  • Least Squares Fit of Points to a Circle

  • Matlab Image Processing Toolbox Exercises

    • 6.                          5/4/2000                                            3D Vision

    7.                          5/11/2000                                          Stereo Vision

    8.                          5/18/2000                                          Expert Vision, Quiz 2

    9.                          5/25/2000                                          Tactile sensing

    10.                        6/1/2000                                            Applications

    FINAL                   Tuesday 6/6/2000, 7:30 – 9:30 AM or TBA                   Project Presentations

     

    Visit the robotics web page at: http://www.eng.uc.edu/robotics for course updates and notes.