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AUTOMATION/ROBOTICS: Vision in automation and robotics.

Publication: Metalworking Production
Publication Date: 26-MAY-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
The combination of robotics and image processing enables the fault- free, fast, reliable and economic manufacture and quality assurance of all kinds of products in many sectors.

WHERE vision is used in automating manufacturing processes, applications tend to concentrate on its use for inspection/quality control - linking into automatic pass/fail selectors, or into SPC for eliminating waste by adjusting the process before it goes out of specification. But there are also two ways in which vision and robotics combine in an automation environment.

Firstly, image processing provides mechanical robots with a new mode of perception by giving them added 'vision' which is...

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