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Journal of Sensor Technology, 2011, 1, 108-115 doi:10.4236/jst.2011.14015 Published Online December 2011 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/jst) Design of Omni-Directional Tilt Sensor Based on Machine Vision 1 2 Yiping Tang , Caiguo Chen 1College of Information Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, China 2College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, China E-mail : typ@, suibian126.com Received August 22, 2011; revised September 30, 2011; accepted October 9, 2011 Abstract This paper presents a new Omni-Directional Tilt Sensor (ODTS), which consists of the LED light, transpar- ent cone-shaped closed container, mercury, camera, embedded systems and so on. The volume of the mer- cury in the container is equal to half of the container’s. When the detected surface is horizontal, the shape of mercury in the image captured by the camera is a black disc since the mercury is lightproof. When the de- tected surface tilts, the mercury flows and the mercury surface always maintains horizontally due to the gravity force of the earth. At this time, some area of the transparent cone-shaped closed container is not shaded by mercury and the border of the mercury’s shape in the captured image is a half circle and a half ellipse. Thus there is a translucent crescent-shaped area in the image. With analyzing this area by the specific algorithm based on machine vision, the tilt angle and directional angle can be obtained. The experimental results show that the ODTS proposed has some advantages, such as simple maintenance, high pre