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Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice 4

Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice 4

John Billingsley Peter Brett •

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Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice 4

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Editors John Billingsley School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering University of Southern Queensland Toowoomba, QLD, Australia

Peter Brett Agricultural Technologies and Robotics University of Southern Queensland Toowoomba, QLD, Australia

ISBN 978-3-030-43702-2 ISBN 978-3-030-43703-9 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43703-9

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Introduction

These are selected and revised papers from the 26th Annual Conference on Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice, held in Toowoomba December 2–5, 2019. In the process of selecting the papers, many were rejected as lacking the essential ‘in practice’ element. The survivors have been grouped into those that deal predominantly with vision and optical sensing, those that relate to agricultural applications, more general robotics and devices, sensing methods and actuation, and finally industrial processes and products. The conference was held with the hospitality of USQ’s McGregor College and its Centre for Agricultural Engineering. The local team presented several keynotes not included here, which are likely to be published elsewhere later. There are strong contributions from a number of Chinese and New Zealand Universities, together with contributions from the Philippines, Emirates, and Germany. For more details on the topics, there are summaries in each of the part headings, covering a vast array of themes ranging from deep learning applied to vision analysis to a robotic