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  • Master Thesis
    An Automatic Vision Guided Position Controller in a Conveyor Belt Pick and Place System
    (Izmir Institute of Technology, 2006) Çelikdemir, Özgür; Aytaç, İsmail Sıtkı
    An automatic vision guided position controller system is developed as for possible applications such as handling and packaging that require position and orientation control. The aim here is to minimize the production cycle time, and to improve the economic performance and system productivity. The system designed can be partitioned into five major parts: vision module, pneumatic automation module, manipulator, conveyor-belt and a software that manages and integrates these modules. The developed software captures raw image data from a camera that is connected to a PC via usb port. Using image processing methods, this software determines the proper coordinates and pose of the moving parts on the conveyor belt in real time. The pick and place system locates the parts to the packaging area as part.s predefined orientation. The software communicates with a controller card via serial port, manages and synchronizes the peripherals (conveyor belt stepper motors- pneumatic valves,etc) of the system. C programming language is used in the implementation. OpenCV library is utilized for image acquisition. The system has the following characteristics: The Conveyor belt runs with a constant speed and objects on the conveyor belt may have arbitrary position and orientation. The vision system detects parts with their position and orientation on the moving conveyor belt based on a reference position. The manipulator picks the part and then corrects its position comparing the information obtained by vision system with predefined position, and it places the object to the packaging area. System can be trained for the desired position of the object .
  • Master Thesis
    Thrust Control Design for Unmanned Marine Vehicles
    (Izmir Institute of Technology, 2012) Alkan, Buğra; Dede, Mehmet İsmet Can
    In conventional electrically driven propulsion systems with fixed pitch propellers, thruster controllers are usually aimed at controlling propeller shaft speed only. Especially in unmanned marine vehicles which operate in dynamic flow conditions, these type thruster controllers provide unsatisfactory thrust responses. The reason for this is that the thrust force is simultaneously affected by dynamic effects like, variable ambient flow velocity and angle, thruster-thruster interaction and ventilation. It is aimed to achieve acceptable thrust tracking accuracy in all kind of dynamic flow conditions in this thesis work. A novel feed-back based thruster controller which includes the effect of incoming axial flow velocity, is designed for this purpose. In controller design, first, thruster propeller's open water characteristics in four-quadrant flow states are measured. Data collected from open water tests are then non-dimensionalized and embedded in the controller's thrust model code. Relation between ideal shaft speed and desired thrust is derived by using the four-quadrant propeller model. The proposed method is evaluated in the experimental test-setup designed for this study to simulate open water conditions. Results indicate that thrust tracking performance of novel controller is acceptable in all four-quadrant flow tests.