An analysis of target materials influence on optical sensors performance

Author

Marza, A.O. ; Avram, Ioana Moldovean ; Tamovan, I.G.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Meas., Tech. Univ. of Cluj-Napoca, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

fYear

2012

fDate

25-27 Oct. 2012

Firstpage

85

Lastpage

87

Abstract

The performances of the optical sensors systems are influenced by the target materials, by the distance from sensor to target and the angle of target according to sensor. The type of target material influences the response of optical sensors systems according to their physical properties. The sensor performance is influenced by the color, by the density, by the shape and the others physical properties. This paper presents the influence analysis of the target materials of the optical sensors performance for autonomous mobile robots. Measurements were made with infrared distance sensors and with the proximity sensor with visible light.

Keywords

distance measurement; infrared detectors; mobile robots; optical sensors; autonomous mobile robots; distance measurement; infrared distance sensors; optical sensor performance; physical properties; proximity sensor; target material influence analysis; visible light; Materials; Optical fiber sensors; Optical variables measurement; Robot sensing systems; Rough surfaces; Surface roughness; distance measurement; infrared sensors; optical reflection; optical sensors; performance analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical and Power Engineering (EPE), 2012 International Conference and Exposition on

Conference_Location

Iasi

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1173-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICEPE.2012.6463947

Filename

6463947