Sensing Technics for Visual Inspection

User Programmable Visual Inspection

The usefulness of advanced machine vision techniques for automated inspection is restricted by long development cycles for the inspection software and a lack of general applicability of the resulting system. These difficulties arise because in the majority of cases the particulars of the inspection are embedded in the software structure resulting in severe restrictions on user reconfiguration. ...

Adaptive Visual Inspection

The robot vision system A prototype robotized vision system has been designed, using a six degrees of freedom anthropomorphic arm, for self-adaptive vision based quality control on an assembly line for washing machines (WM). The robot allows displacing the camera in the workspace so to inspect a washing unit (WU) or a complete WM on a pallet. The vision system is equipped with a 1360x1024 pixel...

Corrosion Detection for Automated Visual Inspection

Visual novelty detection for autonomous inspection robots

Mobile robot applications that involve automated exploration and inspection of environments are often dependant on novelty detection, the ability to differentiate between common and uncommon perceptions. Because novelty can be anything that deviates from the normal context, we argue that in order to implement a novelty filter it is necessary to exploit the robot’s sensory data from the ground u...

A Flexible Concept for Automatic Visual Inspection

This work aims to show a systematic automated visual inspection concept that speeds up the development of such systems by providing a software reuse and setup concept. A new, highly adaptable concept for visual inspection separates the detection of primitives from the modelbased analysis process. This separation is reached by defining a general analysis graph for inspection, containing detail r...