Abstract: A modular configurable automated guided vehicle including a drive module, a battery module, a pin module, a cowl module, and a control module is described herein. The drive module includes a drive wheel and a motor. The battery module includes a battery. The pin module includes a pin and a pin actuator. The cowl module includes a bumper and a caster. The control module includes a subplate to which a plurality of electrical components are mounted. The drive module, the battery module, the pin module, the cowl module, and the control module are discrete pre-assembled units that mate with one another in a longitudinally abutting relationship to cooperatively form a support housing. Accordingly, the drive module, the battery module, the pin module, the cowl module, and the control module are easily replaced and are configured to be connected to one another in a variety of different customizable sequences.

Abstract: A machine vision system used with automated painting equipment for object identification, intrustion-sensing and clearance monitoring. The vision system includes one or more cameras mounted at convenient clean locations where unique or distinctive visual attributes or features of the objects to be painted (such as automotive vehicle bodies or parts thereof) and the automated painting equipment may be seen. The camera acquires successive images of a first scene which includes at least a first movable object to be identified. Image processing steps performed on each image from the camera include recognizing selected pictorial attributes or features of the object and comparing the recognized attributes of the first object with corresponding reference data from a set of reference information about the object previously stored in the system.