3-D position/orientation measrurement using model-based matching method and GA - Proposal of calculation method and evaluation

This paper presents a vision-related technique for 3-D position/ orientation measurement. The proposed method utilizes the genetic algorithm (GA) and unprocessed gray-scale image input from stereo-vision, in order to perform recognition of a target being imaged with known target object shape. In fact here, the problem to recognize the target shape and simultaneous detection of the position/orientation, is converted to an optimistic problem of a model-based evalution function, named as surface-strips model-based fitness function that consists in the computation of the brightness difference between an internal surface and a contour-strips. In order to evaluate the proposed 3-D recognition method, experiments by a robot manipulator equipped with two hand-eye cameras have been conducted to recognize a ball on a turning table. The results show its effectiveness of this method for real-time visual servoing by manipulator.