An object positioning solves said problems encountered in machine vision,
which employs electro-optic (EO) image sensors enhanced with integrated
laser ranger, global positioning system/inertial measurement unit, and
integrates these data to get reliable and real time object position. An
object positioning and data integrating system comprises EO sensors, a
MEMS IMU, a GPS receiver, a laser ranger, a preprocessing module, a
segmentation module, a detection module, a recognition module, a 3D
positioning module, and a tracking module, in which autonomous, reliable
and real time object positioning and tracking can be achieved.