Development of a 3D model based part recognition system for industrial applications: Main challenges

Nowadays, and considering flexibility, industrial robots still present some drawback that prevent them to be used in vast fields of the industry. One of their major limitations is related with their perception skills. In this area, and although the many developments verified on 3D object recognition systems in the research sphere, the number of solutions appearing in the industry level has been slow. Hence, this article tries to clarify some of the motives that difficult the technology transference (in what concerns object recognition) between both worlds. At the same time, it will be presented an industrial case scenario (inserted in an European Project) where some of the problems enumerated during the article are present.