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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2022

Distributed Camera Subsystem for Obstacle Detection.

Petr Oščádal, Tomáš Spurný, Tomáš Kot, Stefan Grushko, Jiří Suder, Dominik Heczko, Petr Novák, Zdenko Bobovský

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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8 authors.

Petr OščádalDepartment of Robotics, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, VSB-TU Ostrava, 70800 Ostrava, Czech Republic.ORCID 0000-0002-6973-1501
Tomáš SpurnýDepartment of Robotics, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, VSB-TU Ostrava, 70800 Ostrava, Czech Republic.ORCID 0000-0003-0986-4203
Tomáš KotDepartment of Robotics, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, VSB-TU Ostrava, 70800 Ostrava, Czech Republic.ORCID 0000-0003-2357-806X
Stefan GrushkoDepartment of Robotics, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, VSB-TU Ostrava, 70800 Ostrava, Czech Republic.ORCID 0000-0002-8984-153X
Jiří SuderDepartment of Robotics, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, VSB-TU Ostrava, 70800 Ostrava, Czech Republic.ORCID 0000-0002-4692-1329
Dominik HeczkoDepartment of Robotics, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, VSB-TU Ostrava, 70800 Ostrava, Czech Republic.ORCID 0000-0003-3251-4391
Petr NovákDepartment of Robotics, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, VSB-TU Ostrava, 70800 Ostrava, Czech Republic.ORCID 0000-0003-2103-7294
Zdenko BobovskýDepartment of Robotics, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, VSB-TU Ostrava, 70800 Ostrava, Czech Republic.ORCID 0000-0003-4134-5251

Funding

Research Platform focused on Industry 4.0 and Robotics in Ostrava Agglomeration project CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/17_049/0008425Specific research project SP2022/67
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This work focuses on improving a camera system for sensing a workspace in which dynamic obstacles need to be detected. The currently available state-of-the-art solution (MoveIt!) processes data in a centralized manner from cameras that have to be registered before the system starts. Our solution enables distributed data processing and dynamic change in the number of sensors at runtime. The distributed camera data processing is implemented using a dedicated control unit on which the filtering is performed by comparing the real and expected depth images. Measurements of the processing speed of all sensor data into a global voxel map were compared between the centralized system (MoveIt!) and the new distributed system as part of a performance benchmark. The distributed system is more flexible in terms of sensitivity to a number of cameras, better framerate stability and the possibility of changing the camera number on the go. The effects of voxel grid size and camera resolution were also compared during the benchmark, where the distributed system showed better results. Finally, the overhead of data transmission in the network was discussed where the distributed system is considerably more efficient. The decentralized system proves to be faster by 38.7% with one camera and 71.5% with four cameras.

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Computer Communication Networkscollaborationdistributed processinghuman–robot interactionobstacles detectionsensors networkworkspace monitoring

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PMID35746381
PMCPMC9228584

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