Flexible thin parts multi‐target positioning method of multi‐level feature fusion

Abstract

Abstract In new energy battery manufacturing, machine vision is widely used in automated assembly scenarios for key parts. To improve the accuracy and real‐time multi‐target positioning recognition of flexible thin parts, this paper proposes a multi‐level feature fusion template matching algorithm based on the Gaussian pyramid. Firstly, the algorithm constructs a Gaussian pyramid by multi‐scale image construction. Secondly, considering the image features of each layer of the pyramid, this paper uses the grey‐based Fast Normalized Matching algorithm to obtain coarse positioning coordinates on the upper layer, and the improved Linemod‐2D algorithm is applied to the bottom layer image to get accurate positioning coordinates. Finally, the positioning coordinates returned from each layer are fused to obtain the final positioning coordinate. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm achieves excellent performance in nickel plate positioning and recognition. It exhibits satisfactory performance in nickel sheet localization and recognition. In terms of angular error, repeat accuracy, and matching speed, it competes favourably with Halcon, VisionMaster, and SCISmart. Its positioning error closely approximates that of Halcon, effectively meeting the practical production demands for high‐speed feeding and high‐precision positioning.

Keywords

• Gaussian processes
• image fusion
• image recognition
• object recognition