Application of an Automated Optoelectronic System for Determining Position of an Object

In this work the possibility of application of an automated optoelectronic system for determining the location of an object is analyzed. The main calculated parameters are the distance to an object and the direction to it. A geometric shape that has symmetry along one of the axes is used as a tag in the processed image. To process images coming from an optoelectronic module, an algorithm was developed that provides both preliminary processing of visual data (binarization, removal of noise component, selection of shape contours) and the subsequent search for a specified tag. As a result of the experiments, the negative influence of the lens mounted on the optoelectronic module on the accuracy of determining the position of an object was revealed. The value of this inaccuracy can be significantly reduced if the correction factors determined by the properties of an optical system are additionally introduced into the algorithm.