An autonomous system for linear and angular measurements in big surfaces

At present, warehouse construction industry makes large vertical stores over small areas causing vertical designs ofvehicles and structures. In this situation, the floor must have constant levelness and high flatness in order toachieve the nominal performance of the very narrow aisle lift trucks. Wi...

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Autores: B. Valera, R. Nava, E. Miranda
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2004
País:México
Institución:Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Repositorio:Redalyc-UNAM
OAI Identifier:oai:redalyc.org:47420203
Acceso en línea:https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=47420203
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Ingeniería
Flat Floors
Mobile Robot
OLE Automation
Flatness and Levelness Measurements
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Sumario:At present, warehouse construction industry makes large vertical stores over small areas causing vertical designs ofvehicles and structures. In this situation, the floor must have constant levelness and high flatness in order toachieve the nominal performance of the very narrow aisle lift trucks. With this in mind, in this paper we present anovel system for levelness and flatness measurement based on big surfaces shape measurement. The system haslinear and angular optical measurement devices on a mobile robot with automatic drive based on an embeddedmicrocontroller. Readings from the robot are sent to a host computer by means of a radio frequency link for futureanalysis of level and flatness in agreement with the E1155-87 ASM standard. In addition, this work presents a PCprogram that receives data from the robot and then sends the data dynamically to a spreadsheet. The completetravel of the vehicle over the measurement area can be made with high degree of automation, reportingremarkable advantages compared to those of a manual process.