Abstract
To enhance the efficiency of container loading and unloading and realize automated operations,this study investigates monocular-vision-based automatic alignment between spreader and container,integrating deep learning and image-processing techniques. Monocular images of container hoisting conditions were analyzed with emphasis on the regional characteristics of corner components. To address the low pixel proportion of corner regions in high-resolution images,a two-stage "coarse positioning-fine segmentation" strategy was proposed. Based on the segmentation results,key feature points were detected,2D-3D point correspondences were established,and pose estimation was performed using the Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm. Validation was conducted on an AUBO-i10 manipulator alignment platform in laboratory settings. Experimental results demonstrate that the mean average precision(mAP)for detection of container corner components exceeds 95% in both laboratory and real-scene environments. Mean intersection-over-union(mIoU)for corner segmentation reached 98. 15% and 93. 89%,respectively-improvements of 1. 24% and 1. 64% over the baseline SegFormer-B0-while model computational cost was reduced by approximately 23. 2%. At a camera-to-corner distance of about 2 m,the aiming error of the alignment position was below 1. 0 mm. Absolute translation errors on the X,Y,and Z axes were all below 5. 0 mm,and absolute rotation error was below 0. 5°. These results indicate that the proposed method achieves reliable accuracy and satisfies the requirements for automatic alignment of single-angle components.
| Translated title of the contribution | Automatic alignment of container corner based on monocular vision |
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| Original language | Chinese (Traditional) |
| Pages (from-to) | 3150-3161 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Journal | Guangxue Jingmi Gongcheng/Optics and Precision Engineering |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue number | 19 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Oct 2025 |
| Externally published | Yes |
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