'Complete Inspect' tightly integrates robotics and machine-vision technology
Austria's Profactor GmbH has developed 'Complete Inspect', which it describes as an assembly inspection system that tightly integrates robotics and machine-vision technology.
A single, easy-to-use interface gives users access to machine-vision and robot control systems, which means that specific knowledge about robot programming or machine vision is not required, says Profactor.
According to the firm, robotic inspection systems usually require the services of both machine-vision and robotics experts to set up an entire system. Typically, completeness inspection relies on the use of multiple cameras and views of the same object to detect all possible defects and missing parts.
Robots provide a flexible way of positioning a product or object in front of a camera. In Profactor's system the position and movement of the robot is controlled by a graphical user interface that encompasses six degrees of freedom. A control program is generated automatically by the software and downloaded to the robot. The detection of missing parts in a single view is done by so-called 'virtual sensors' that are simply drawn into the camera image and can assume an arbitrary shape. Robust algorithms compensate for changes in illumination and are able to deal with shadows.
This system is applicable to all robot systems that use the ModBus interface.
Contact:
Maria Führlinger
Profactor GmbH
Im Stadtgut A2
4407 Steyr-Gleink
Austria
Phone: +43-7252-885-0
Fax: +43-7252-885-101
E-mail: maria.fuehrlinger@profactor.at
Web: http://www.profactor.at
A single, easy-to-use interface gives users access to machine-vision and robot control systems, which means that specific knowledge about robot programming or machine vision is not required, says Profactor.
According to the firm, robotic inspection systems usually require the services of both machine-vision and robotics experts to set up an entire system. Typically, completeness inspection relies on the use of multiple cameras and views of the same object to detect all possible defects and missing parts.
Robots provide a flexible way of positioning a product or object in front of a camera. In Profactor's system the position and movement of the robot is controlled by a graphical user interface that encompasses six degrees of freedom. A control program is generated automatically by the software and downloaded to the robot. The detection of missing parts in a single view is done by so-called 'virtual sensors' that are simply drawn into the camera image and can assume an arbitrary shape. Robust algorithms compensate for changes in illumination and are able to deal with shadows.
This system is applicable to all robot systems that use the ModBus interface.
Contact:
Maria Führlinger
Profactor GmbH
Im Stadtgut A2
4407 Steyr-Gleink
Austria
Phone: +43-7252-885-0
Fax: +43-7252-885-101
E-mail: maria.fuehrlinger@profactor.at
Web: http://www.profactor.at
