Verdú Monedero, Rafael
Berenguer Vidal, Rafael
Morales Sánchez, Juan
Vázquez, G.
Otero, T.F.
Weruaga Prieto, Luis
2009-04-01T08:56:21Z
2009-04-01T08:56:21Z
2003-09
VERDÚ, R. BERENGUER, R. VAZQUEZ, G. OTERO, T.F. WERUAGA, L. 3D mechanical characterization of artificial muscles with stereoscopic computer vision and active contours. En: International Conference Image Processing (2003: Barcelona). Proceedings 2003 International Conference on Image Processing ICIP 2003. Tampere, Finland: 2003. 397-400 p. ISBN 0-7803-7750-8
0-7803-7750-8
1522-4880
http://hdl.handle.net/10317/889
10.1109/ICIP.2003.1246982
Artificial muscles are formed by attaching a conducting polymeric film to a non-conducting one. Applying an electrical current on the muscle. a macroscopic bending movement appears on it. Study of curvature variations and related parameters, such as speed of motion or energy of curvature, is necessary for improving the efficiency of these devices. In a previous work. a one-cam computer vision system was developed to estimate motion parameters in 2D with precise results. In this paper, a two-cam stereo vision system is proposed to process the image sequence and track the muscle in 3D. Active contours models are employed in motion detection and mechanical parameters estimation. Results prove the validity of this approach, allowing automatic testing on the research into artificial muscles.
This work was supported by MCYI' BQLJ2001-0477
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Músculos artificiales
Procesamiento de imágenes estéreo
Secuencia de imágenes
Procesamiento de señales multidimensionales
Caracterización mecánica 3D
Realización de películas poliméricas
Teoría de la Señal y las Comunicaciones