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A Visual Inspection System for Accurate Positioning of Railway Fastener
Summary :
Automatic disassembly of railway fasteners is of great significance for improving the efficiency of replacing rails. The accurate positioning of fastener is the key factor to realize automatic disassembling. However, most of the existing literature mainly focuses on fastener region positioning and the literature on accurate positioning of fasteners is scarce. Therefore, this paper constructed a visual inspection system for accurate positioning of fastener (VISP). At first, VISP acquires railway image by image acquisition subsystem, and then the subimage of fastener can be obtained by coarse-to-fine method. Subsequently, the accurate positioning of fasteners can be completed by three steps, including contrast enhancement, binarization and spike region extraction. The validity and robustness of the VISP were verified by vast experiments. The results show that VISP has competitive performance for accurate positioning of fasteners. The single positioning time is about 260ms, and the average positioning accuracy is above 90%. Thus, it is with theoretical interest and potential industrial application.
- Publication
- IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information Vol.E103-D No.10 pp.2208-2215
- Publication Date
- 2020/10/01
- Publicized
- 2020/07/17
- Online ISSN
- 1745-1361
- DOI
- 10.1587/transinf.2020EDP7097
- Type of Manuscript
- PAPER
- Category
- Image Recognition, Computer Vision
Authors
Jianwei LIU
Hunan University
Hongli LIU
Hunan University
Xuefeng NI
Hunan University
Ziji MA
Hunan University
Chao WANG
University of South China
Xun SHAO
Kitami Institute of Technology
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Jianwei LIU, Hongli LIU, Xuefeng NI, Ziji MA, Chao WANG, Xun SHAO, "A Visual Inspection System for Accurate Positioning of Railway Fastener" in IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information,
vol. E103-D, no. 10, pp. 2208-2215, October 2020, doi: 10.1587/transinf.2020EDP7097.
Abstract: Automatic disassembly of railway fasteners is of great significance for improving the efficiency of replacing rails. The accurate positioning of fastener is the key factor to realize automatic disassembling. However, most of the existing literature mainly focuses on fastener region positioning and the literature on accurate positioning of fasteners is scarce. Therefore, this paper constructed a visual inspection system for accurate positioning of fastener (VISP). At first, VISP acquires railway image by image acquisition subsystem, and then the subimage of fastener can be obtained by coarse-to-fine method. Subsequently, the accurate positioning of fasteners can be completed by three steps, including contrast enhancement, binarization and spike region extraction. The validity and robustness of the VISP were verified by vast experiments. The results show that VISP has competitive performance for accurate positioning of fasteners. The single positioning time is about 260ms, and the average positioning accuracy is above 90%. Thus, it is with theoretical interest and potential industrial application.
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AU - Jianwei LIU
AU - Hongli LIU
AU - Xuefeng NI
AU - Ziji MA
AU - Chao WANG
AU - Xun SHAO
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AB - Automatic disassembly of railway fasteners is of great significance for improving the efficiency of replacing rails. The accurate positioning of fastener is the key factor to realize automatic disassembling. However, most of the existing literature mainly focuses on fastener region positioning and the literature on accurate positioning of fasteners is scarce. Therefore, this paper constructed a visual inspection system for accurate positioning of fastener (VISP). At first, VISP acquires railway image by image acquisition subsystem, and then the subimage of fastener can be obtained by coarse-to-fine method. Subsequently, the accurate positioning of fasteners can be completed by three steps, including contrast enhancement, binarization and spike region extraction. The validity and robustness of the VISP were verified by vast experiments. The results show that VISP has competitive performance for accurate positioning of fasteners. The single positioning time is about 260ms, and the average positioning accuracy is above 90%. Thus, it is with theoretical interest and potential industrial application.
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