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                    <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">ei</journal-id>
                    <journal-title>Electronic Imaging</journal-title>
                    <issn pub-type="ppub">2470-1173</issn><issn pub-type="epub">2470-1173</issn>
                    <publisher>
                        <publisher-name>Society for Imaging Science and Technology</publisher-name>
                        <publisher-loc>IS&amp;T 7003 Kilworth Lane, Springfield, VA 22151 USA</publisher-loc>
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                    <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.2352/EI.2025.37.15.AVM-116</article-id>
                    <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">AVM-116</article-id>
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                        <subject>Proceedings Paper</subject>
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                        <article-title>Flex-PLACE: Flexible robot base placement for industrial inspection</article-title>
                    </title-group><contrib-group content-type="all"><contrib contrib-type="author"><name>
                            <surname>Staderini</surname>
                            <given-names>Vanessa </given-names>
                           </name> <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1author1"/></contrib><aff id="aff1author1">AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Austria</aff></contrib-group><contrib-group content-type="all"><contrib contrib-type="author"><name>
                            <surname>Glück</surname>
                            <given-names>Tobias </given-names>
                           </name> <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1author2"/></contrib><aff id="aff1author2">AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Austria</aff></contrib-group><contrib-group content-type="all"><contrib contrib-type="author"><name>
                            <surname>Kugi</surname>
                            <given-names>Andreas </given-names>
                           </name> <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1author3"/> <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2author3"/></contrib><aff id="aff1author3">AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Austria</aff><aff id="aff2author3">Automation and Control Institute (ACIN), TU Wien, Austria</aff></contrib-group><abstract>
                    <title>Abstract</title>
                    <p>Automatic visual quality inspection is a cornerstone of modern manufacturing, leveraging advancements in computer vision and robotics to enhance speed and efficiency. While numerous inspection planning methodologies exist, they often neglect the critical challenge of designing the inspection cell—specifically, determining the optimal placement of the robot relative to the inspected objects. This placement is pivotal for maximizing inspection performance and minimizing the inspection time.
In this work, we present a flexible framework to determine the robot base placement via an optimization routine to facilitate the inspection of diverse objects. This eliminates the need to re-program the inspection cell whenever the object changes, significantly simplifying and streamlining the process. Extensive simulations validate the effectiveness of our method, demonstrating significant improvements in achieving high coverage and reducing the time compared to a brute force approach.</p>
                    </abstract><pub-date>
                        <day>2</day>
                        <month>2</month>
                        <year>2025</year>
                        </pub-date><volume>37</volume>
                    <issue-acronym>AVM</issue-acronym>
                    <issue-title>Autonomous Vehicles and Machines 2025</issue-title>
                    <issue seq="116">15</issue>
                    <fpage>116-1</fpage>
                    <lpage>116-6</lpage>
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                         <copyright-statement>© 2025 Society for Imaging Science and Technology</copyright-statement>
                        <copyright-year>2025</copyright-year>
                    </permissions><kwd-group><kwd>Quality Inspection</kwd><kwd>Industrial application</kwd><kwd>Robot base placement</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta>
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