Wireless Vision Systems Reduce Cable Costs

摘要

At the International Conference for Vision Guided Robotics, held in October in Novi, MI, Eric Hershberger, a senior engineer with Applied Manufacturing Technologies described a prototype vision-based robotics system based on wireless technology (see figure). Deployed at a large automotive manufacturer, the system uses off-the-shelf cameras and wireless routers to allow the automotive company to evaluate the benefits of the technology in rackrnpicking and placement applications.rn"In 10 vision-guided robotics workcells," says Hershberger, "the automotive company was spending over $30,000 on replacement camera and computer cables approximately every six months!" To reduce this cost, the system developed by AMT uses a Gigabit Ethernet camera from DALSA coupled to a $200 wireless router from Linksys.