Vision in automation and robotics: Don Braggins, UK Industrial Vision Association looks at the use of robotics in manufacturing

摘要

The use of vision in the automation of manufacturing processes is well documented, but most application areas tend to concentrate on the use of vision as an inspection device for quality control. Linking of such systems into automatic pass/fail selectors or even into statistical process control for the elimination of waste by adjusting the process before it goes out of specification are powerful uses of vision, but the technique also has an important role to play in robot vision applications.