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Los contenedores de mercancías son recipientes Con este proyecto, se pretende mejorar la
de carga para el transporte marítimo y terrestre eficiencia de los Centros de Logística, realizando
que pueden utilizarse para transportar objetos una tarea repetitiva de forma mucho más rápida
voluminosos o pesados: motores, maquinaria, y económica.
pequeños vehículos, etc.
Estos contenedores, antes de ser transportados a Para ello, se hace uso de dos tecnologías: la
sus lugares de destino, son almacenados en los visión artificial y los drones.
llamados Centros de Logística. En estos centros,
se guardan y se dan órdenes de salida para su
La visión artificial se define como la disciplina
distribución.
científica que incluye métodos de análisis y
captación de imágenes, con el fin de extraer
Los Centros de Logística presentan una continua información que un ordenador pueda interpretar.
entrada y salida de productos. Para su eficiente La visión artificial es una tecnología
funcionamiento, es necesario poseer información relativamente reciente que, debido su gran
en todo momento del flujo de movimiento y del abanico de aplicaciones en prácticamente
tiempo de estancia de los mismos. cualquier ámbito de la vida, se ha desarrollado
muy rápidamente generando un gran impacto en
Actualmente, en los Centros donde se destinan la sociedad.
los contenedores de mercancías esta actividad de
logística se realiza de forma manual. Un operario Otra nueva tecnología que, de igual manera, ha
anota, a mano, cada uno de los contenedores conseguido tener un gran impacto en diversos
presentes en el Centro de Logística en ese sectores de la sociedad ha sido el dron. Los
momento. A continuación, los transfiere a una drones domésticos y profesionales permiten
base de datos a partir de la cual se realizan las desplazarse a zonas inaccesibles por el ser
correspondientes tareas de distribución. humano, e incluso grabar o fotografiar esas zonas
Esta actividad puede resultar larga y tediosa, si se les añade una cámara.
además de poder conllevar a error, pues el ojo
humano acaba por fatigarse ante largas
Por lo tanto, un dron tendrá la posibilidad de
actividades repetitivas.
alcanzar grandes alturas, en las que un operario
requeriría de una herramienta para su elevación,
Este proyecto, pretende transformar el método de forma rápida y precisa, tomando fotografías a
para la realización de la actividad anterior una gran velocidad. Gracias a la estabilidad que
haciendo uso de la tecnología. Así pues, el proporcionan los drones actuales, las imágenes
objetivo de este proyecto consiste en la lectura pueden ser tan nítidas como las que realizaría una
con drones del marcaje en contenedores. cámara estable.
II. Metodología
III. Resultados
IV. Conclusiones
PROJECT SUMMARY
extract the markup of the container and add it to
the database.
I. Introduction
The aim of this project is to improve the
Shipping containers are cargo recipients for efficiency of the Logistics Centers, by
maritime and land transport that can be used to performing repetitive tasks much faster and more
transport heavy objects: engines, machinery, economically.
small vehicles, etc.
These containers, before being shipped to their Two technologies are used for this task:
destination, are stored in the so-called Logistics computer vision and drones.
Centers. In these centers, the containers are kept
Computer vision is defined as the scientific
until orders of distribution.
discipline that includes methods of image
analysis in order to extract information that a
The Logistics Centers present a continuous computer can interpret. Computer vision is a
entrance and exit of products. In order to make relatively recent technology that, due to the wide
an efficient logistics operation, it is necessary to range of applications that it has in practically any
have constant information about the inflow and area of life, it has been rapidly developed,
outflow and the stay of the containers. generating a great impact on society.
Nowadays, in the Logistics Centers for shipping Another new technology that has also had a great
containers, the activity of picking the information impact in various sectors of the society has been
about the flow is carried out manually. An the drone. Domestic and professional drones
operator takes notes by hand of each container allow us to move to areas inaccessible to humans,
present at the Center at that time. Then, he and even record and photograph those areas if a
transfers these notes to a database from which the camera is added to it.
corresponding distribution tasks are performed.
This activity can be long and tedious, as well as Therefore, a drone is able to reach heights, in
leading to error because the human eye which an operator would require a support for the
eventually becomes fatigued by long repetitive elevation, quickly and in a precise way, taking
activities. photographs at a great speed. Due to the stability
that actual drones have, the photographs can be
This project aims to transform the method for as well-defined as if it was taken from a fixed
picking the information about the flow of position.
shipping containers by making use of
technology. Therefore, the objective of this The marking of shipping containers consists of
project is to read with the use of a camera the following elements
attached to a drone, the marking of shipping
BIC Code: Company that owns the shipping
containers.
container.
Identification: Set of six digits that defines the
The proposed activity will be carried out by a container.
remote control drone which will fly in the
Control Code: Digit that is obtained from a
Logistics Center taking photographs of the
series of operations performed with the BIC
marking of the shipping containers. Once a set of
Code and Identification. The digit obtained
images has been obtained, the algorithm that will
serves as verification, being the marking correct
be developed in this project will analyze and
if it matches with the Control Code acquired in
the image.
Measures and Characteristics: Irrelevant for
logistics and will not be read. Based on this procedure, the methodology for the
achievement of the objectives will be the
following:
Figure 3: Text search in image In addition, there are often confusions between
similar characters such as 5 and 6, or O and U.
These facts are usually solved by the application
For the possible reading of each of the input of several filters in which one is read correctly,
images, it is necessary to apply different filters but exceptions can always arise.
in order to cover all types of possible luminosity
in the photographs. IV.Conclusions