A Visual Measurement System for Coil Shipping Automation

Author

Tae-Gyoon Lim ; Yonghun Kim ; Pyungkang Kim ; Soohyun Kim ; Young-Keun Kim ; Sung Joon Ahn

Author_Institution

Syst. Solution Res. Center Pohang, RIST, Pohang, South Korea

fYear

2014

Firstpage

57

Lastpage

60

Abstract

During steel-coil shipping, the coil-lifting operation is usually conducted manually by tying a sling belt through the bore hole of the coil, and then the crane moves the coil from the pallet to the ship. To fully automate this process, the key issues are an automated coil lifting mechanism imitating the manual operation and the reliable and accurate recognition methods for coils on a pallet and hold (s) of a ship. This paper proposes a visual measurement system that can detect their dimensions and locations by using various visual sensors. Design of vision systems and their corresponding image processing algorithms will be discussed.

Keywords

coils; cranes; image processing; lifting; production engineering computing; steel; automated coil lifting mechanism; coil lifting operation; crane; image processing; steel coil shipping; visual measurement system; visual sensors; Accuracy; Automation; Cranes; Machine vision; Marine vehicles; Sensors; Coil Shipping Automation; Harbor Crane; Image Processing; Vision System;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optomechatronic Technologies (ISOT), 2014 International Symposium on

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISOT.2014.22

Filename

7119385