Cargo Position Measurement Using Epipolar Geometry for Logistics Automation

Abstract

In recent years, the labor shortage has become a serious problem in logistics industries. In particular, among the five major functions of logistics, most of the storage and cargo handling operations are performed manually using forklifts. This problem can be solved by automating the process. In this paper, we propose a method to acquire the position of cargo from the images taken by two fixed cameras in a warehouse and the relative distance information between a transport vehicle and the cargo using the camera attached to the vehicle. The effectiveness of the proposed methods is shown by experiments.