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Main Authors: Hanson, Nathaniel, Lvov, Gary, Rautela, Vedant, Hibbard, Samuel, Holand, Ethan, DiMarzio, Charles, Padır, Taşkın
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17232
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author Hanson, Nathaniel
Lvov, Gary
Rautela, Vedant
Hibbard, Samuel
Holand, Ethan
DiMarzio, Charles
Padır, Taşkın
author_facet Hanson, Nathaniel
Lvov, Gary
Rautela, Vedant
Hibbard, Samuel
Holand, Ethan
DiMarzio, Charles
Padır, Taşkın
contents Near Infrared (NIR) spectroscopy is widely used in industrial quality control and automation to test the purity and grade of items. In this research, we propose a novel sensorized end effector and acquisition strategy to capture spectral signatures from objects and register them with a 3D point cloud. Our methodology first takes a 3D scan of an object generated by a time-of-flight depth camera and decomposes the object into a series of planned viewpoints covering the surface. We generate motion plans for a robot manipulator and end-effector to visit these viewpoints while maintaining a fixed distance and surface normal. This process is enabled by the spherical motion of the end-effector and ensures maximal spectral signal quality. By continuously acquiring surface reflectance values as the end-effector scans the target object, the autonomous system develops a four-dimensional model of the target object: position in an $R^3$ coordinate frame, and a reflectance vector denoting the associated spectral signature. We demonstrate this system in building spectral-spatial object profiles of increasingly complex geometries. We show the proposed system and spectral acquisition planning produce more consistent spectral signals than naive point scanning strategies. Our work represents a significant step towards high-resolution spectral-spatial sensor fusion for automated quality assessment.
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spellingShingle PROSPECT: Precision Robot Spectroscopy Exploration and Characterization Tool
Hanson, Nathaniel
Lvov, Gary
Rautela, Vedant
Hibbard, Samuel
Holand, Ethan
DiMarzio, Charles
Padır, Taşkın
Robotics
Near Infrared (NIR) spectroscopy is widely used in industrial quality control and automation to test the purity and grade of items. In this research, we propose a novel sensorized end effector and acquisition strategy to capture spectral signatures from objects and register them with a 3D point cloud. Our methodology first takes a 3D scan of an object generated by a time-of-flight depth camera and decomposes the object into a series of planned viewpoints covering the surface. We generate motion plans for a robot manipulator and end-effector to visit these viewpoints while maintaining a fixed distance and surface normal. This process is enabled by the spherical motion of the end-effector and ensures maximal spectral signal quality. By continuously acquiring surface reflectance values as the end-effector scans the target object, the autonomous system develops a four-dimensional model of the target object: position in an $R^3$ coordinate frame, and a reflectance vector denoting the associated spectral signature. We demonstrate this system in building spectral-spatial object profiles of increasingly complex geometries. We show the proposed system and spectral acquisition planning produce more consistent spectral signals than naive point scanning strategies. Our work represents a significant step towards high-resolution spectral-spatial sensor fusion for automated quality assessment.
title PROSPECT: Precision Robot Spectroscopy Exploration and Characterization Tool
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17232