Smart sensors: lessons learned from computer vision

Robert B. Yates; Stuart Meikle

doi:10.1117/12.388888

21 June 2000 Smart sensors: lessons learned from computer vision

Robert B. Yates, Stuart Meikle

Proceedings Volume 3990, Smart Structures and Materials 2000: Smart Electronics and MEMS; (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.388888
Event: SPIE's 7th Annual International Symposium on Smart Structures and Materials, 2000, Newport Beach, CA, United States

Abstract

This paper describes recent work in the field of computer vision and relates the results to the much broader class of smart sensors. The paper begins with an overview of recent work concerning the combination of chemical sensors with neural networks, Such devices allow classification of samples into distinct states, forming, to give one example, an electronic nose. These often require a broad selectivity and are formed from small arrays of sensor elements. This is followed by a description of two aspects of the authors' own work in the field of computer vision. One is an automatic control system of a micro robot-based microassembly station using computer vision. The other concerns that automatic recognition of objects regardless of the scale of the object. For the latter, we have shown that when the senor input noise is taken into consideration, a conventional CCD array is unable to provide a robust representation of an object, regardless of scale. In contrast to this, biological based retinal arrays are able to achieve this. The paper concludes with the perspective that all sensor systems are data dependent. This is of little concern if the sensor consists of a single element, but becomes more important as larger arrays are fabricated. These sensor arrays may have to emulate biological systems, in an analogous manner to a retinal camera.

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Robert B. Yates and Stuart Meikle "Smart sensors: lessons learned from computer vision", Proc. SPIE 3990, Smart Structures and Materials 2000: Smart Electronics and MEMS, (21 June 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.388888

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