Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

Biography

Biography: P. K. Parlewar

Abstract

In modern robotics, cameras serve the function of eyes, but it is the image processing that enables these robots to see, to perceive the environment around them through captured imagery and to act accordingly. Image processing has found applications in industrial service robots, unmanned vehicle operations, computer vision in clinical monitoring, object detection, satellite remote sensing, agricultural and defense applications, and many other areas. Visual quality of image can also be improved using image processing techniques like denoising and histogram processing that smoothen the regions and curves but sharpen edges while also protecting the high frequency information. In the current era, we employ high definition cameras on the robots so more detail can be captured, and also employ high speed processors for faster processing of the captured data. But, we also need faster and more efficient image processing algorithms to go in conjunction, for the betterment of real-time applications of these robotic systems. With advent in robotic technology, the robots are making extensive use of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) components to reduce costs, simplify maintenance, and ease of future upgrades. This also requires graphical user interfaces (GUIs) that support custom-design, virtual masking/demasking, waste reduction, time reduction and protects equipment.