Abstract
Autonomous micromanipulation has a great potential to impact every research field concerning objects at a small scale. In this paper, we report our work on detection and tracking of a transparent SU-8 microchip in 3D Cartesian space during micromanipulation. Conditions such as occlusion, variant object orientation and poor edge prominence hinder the implementation of conventional vision algorithms. To enable tracking in such difficult conditions, an object detection classifier that utilizes an ensemble machine learning algorithm has been implemented. The classifier has been trained with 165 and 85 unique positive and negative samples, respectively. Object detection was achieved at a distance of three times the nominal depth of field with maximum tracking error of only 12 % of the object size.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Manipulation, Automation and Robotics at Small Scales, MARSS 2016 |
Publisher | IEEE |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781509015108 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 6 Sept 2016 |
MoE publication type | A4 Article in a conference publication |
Event | International Conference on Manipulation, Automation and Robotics at Small Scales - Paris, France Duration: 18 Jul 2016 → 22 Jul 2016 Conference number: 1 |
Conference
Conference | International Conference on Manipulation, Automation and Robotics at Small Scales |
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Abbreviated title | MARSS 2016 |
Country/Territory | France |
City | Paris |
Period | 18/07/2016 → 22/07/2016 |
Keywords
- classification
- detection
- Ensemble
- learning
- machine
- micro-object
- micromanipulation
- robotic