Title :
Applying intelligent robotics and vision to mail processing
Author :
Lee, Jay ; Glickman, Frederick
Author_Institution :
Office of Adv. Technol., US Postal Service, Washington, DC, USA
Abstract :
The vision-guided robotic irregular parcels and pieces singulation (generalized bin-picking) and address block location technologies are described. The technological requirements and limitations are examined and discussed. Other mail singulation technologies for letters and flats that use vision-guided intelligent robots and computer-controlled intelligent mechanisms are reviewed
Keywords :
computer vision; computerised materials handling; industrial robots; knowledge based systems; postal services; United States Postal Service; address block location; computer vision; flats; generalized bin-picking; intelligent robotics; irregular parcels and pieces singulation; letters; mail processing; mail singulation; Artificial intelligence; Competitive intelligence; Image segmentation; Intelligent robots; Machine vision; Postal services; Research and development; Robot kinematics; Robot vision systems; Robotics and automation;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Control, 1988. Proceedings., IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Arlington, VA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-2012-9
DOI :
10.1109/ISIC.1988.65521
