Abstract

An interfacing of neural networks (NNs) and machine vision to provide the next state of a system given an image of the present state of the system is presented. This interfacing is applied to a loading operation. First, a NN is trained for part recognition under conditions of rotation, location, object distortion, and background noise given an image of the part. Then, a second NN, given the output of the first NN and an image of a pallet being loaded, is trained for optimal part loading onto the pallet under conditions of noise in the image. The paradigm used is backpropagation. It was found that backpropagation performed well in this present state/next state identification. It was able to successfully train both networks. The various training styles used in both NN are examined.

Meeting Name

IEEE 1991 International Conference on Systems Engineering (1991: Aug. 1-3, Dayton, OH)

Department(s)

Engineering Management and Systems Engineering

Keywords and Phrases

Artificial Intelligence; Backpropagation; Computer Vision; Computerised Materials Handling; Computerised Pattern Recognition; Intelligent State Identification; Machine Vision; Neural Nets; Neural Network; Part Recognition; Pattern Recognition

Document Type

Article - Conference proceedings

Document Version

Final Version

File Type

text

Language(s)

English

Rights

© 1991 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), All rights reserved.

Publication Date

03 Aug 1991

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