Programless Visual Inspection with Flexible Arm Camera

Takashi Anezaki; Tamao Okamoto; Shuji Hatitani; Kenji Suzuki; Shuji Hashimoto

doi:10.1117/12.517468

Programless Visual Inspection with Flexible Arm Camera

Takashi Anezaki^*, Tamao Okamoto, Shuji Hatitani, Kenji Suzuki, Shuji Hashimoto

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Abstract

When inspection equipment based on visual recognition is installed in production sites, the recognition criterion is custom designed to satisfy the inspection specification, normally requiring constant attention and software modifications by specialty engineers. This paper proposes the Programless (Programming-free) visual recognition technology aiming at an automatic visual inspection system that has a self-tuning mechanism and can also be easily tuned by factory workers. A camera system for visual inspection is mounted on a robot arm with flexible electronic components, which enables the users to perform positioning of the inspection equipment in an intuitive manner. The proposed system allows to provide a novel method of visual inspection and to reduce the technical complexity of the handling of visual inspection equipment.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Editors	G.K. Knopf
Pages	121-128
Number of pages	8
Volume	5264
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.517468
Publication status	Published - 2003
Event	Optomechatronic Systems IV - Providence, RI, United States Duration: 2003 Oct 28 → 2003 Oct 29

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Other	Optomechatronic Systems IV
Country/Territory	United States
City	Providence, RI
Period	03/10/28 → 03/10/29

Keywords

Arm camera
Autonomous improvement
Cell production support robot
Visual recognition

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Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Condensed Matter Physics

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