Vision Systems Line Up
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Slide loader supports automated imaging
Prior Scientific (Rockland, MA, USA; www.prior.com) has developed a first-generation automated slide loader system, the PL-200, that will initially be marketed to system integrators developing automated slide handling and analysis systems.
system is directly associated with the correct slide reference details. An optional bar code reader can be calibrated to read one B or two. The system is also supplied with a comprehensive software development kit that simplifies integration with third party software packages. -
Robots & Vision - Aptura
System integrator Aptura Machine Vision Solutions (Lansing, MI, USA) has installed several OCR/OCV systems for pharmaceutical and medical device applications. President David Dechow describes how the system ensures that variable data on labels matches the contents of the packages.
by -- human. And or automated means in the case of the bar code inspection . -- secure. What we're doing is identifying three or four different areas where this variable data has to be positively identified. There
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Robots & Vision - Telecentric illumination
In a demo for inspecting manufactured parts, Greg Hollows, director of machine vision at Edmund Optics, explains the advantages of using telecentric lenses and, especially, backlight telecentric illumination.
failure on the same parts that are passing. On the tell centric illumination system necessity with the fact finding true read for the part is easier with it -- source -- center. -
Robots & Vision - Digital prototyping
Christian Fritz, a product manager at National Instruments, demonstrates a mobile phone testing system based on digital modeling with CAD software.
and them. At the right functionality. Though and sped up. Having people pushing buttons you could use the machine. At a camera up on top. And watched the screen of death ammo but -- upon the -
Robots & Vision - Robotic pick-and-place
Fluid Power Engineering (Elk Grove Village, IL, USA) is a distributor of fluid power and automation controls. Specialist Jomy Vadakumpadam demonstrates a vision-guided robotic system that picks and places randomly placed parts.
possibilities -- robotics. And accurate he's he's ability and they. Pneumatic grouper. Actuators company and off the ability. Incorporated. All -- Morgan do it they -- in -- orientation. XY and data and what's gonna happen here is the cameras and pitcher. We'll see over here take the XY coordinates as well as the data sent it over r.s 232. The robot control of the robot thankful that except that string parts about the different areas and -- to exploit it. The event that this is the there applications -- applications. January don't know the orientation apart and -- could you end of the Campbell did you guys for this robot . Although -- a sample right now. We'll put -- part down. Vision sends -- robot out to its its spot. Comes down grips that -- tracks out of its obstruction places than those -- orientation. Same thing.not this one because apart right next that we don't want the robot craft. Solar -- is a double check to make sure -- seven times so if we have a signal to the feeder -
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Robots & Vision - QMC
QMC (Auburn Hills, MI, USA; www.qmc.com), maker of inline inspection equipment, developed a flexible robotic system for measuring critical part features. VP of engineering Robert Berry explains how the system uses a SICK/IVP scanning sensor to guide operations.
the -- Then we take that information sent -- transformation in the robot . And -- the robot to various features on the part. You measure critical features such -- taxes. Any other critical characteristic that our customer wants tocamera itself. To going to measure features on the part we're actually scanning entire part and were preparing now to the native had -- This system can be utilized not only for inspection -- can be used for being picking it can be utilized for robot guidance applications. So there's a lot of different applications and industries that make this a very viable solution. -
Robots & Vision - 3-D laser triangulation and processing
Cyth Systems (San Diego, CA, USA) has designed an easy way to get data from a SICK Ranger camera to an NI Vision Builder for Automated Inspection controller. Matt Slaughter, business development manager at Cyth, explains how.
small casing. Stuff analysts no moving parts PC. With a nice dual core Intel processor inside so we're gonna show off -- integration between that controller and the -- here we have here. And -- software behind it all is something called vision builder for automated inspection so this is a really easy to use configurable software from national instruments. And right now you know existing before we we put this together there was no easy way. To get the 3-D image data from the camera into -- for automated inspection . So we basically and it's at that site have designed to step. -- let you get the data directly from the the camera and division -- we're gonna show you kind of what that looks like -- liquid. This is vision builder and I hear you have your main image display which we'll see an image show up here in just a minute you got -- state diagrams you can do branching and looping. You've got all the different steps and here we've got a custom step that we designed a site for the -- 3-D camera. And we've already got a little quick inspection builds up here. So we do -- image acquisition we'll do a volume measurement and organize some critical processing so we're gonna -
International Robots & Vision - Day 1
Editor in chief Conard Holton gets an outlook on the International Robots & Vision 2009 show (Rosemont, IL, USA) from RIA executive VP Jeff Burnstein.
we have. Where all the technology that the -- companies in the robot company's motion control companies come together. You're learning about how to -- technology it is acceptable solution that's really one of the points of emphasis this year not only on the show floor at the conference. Another really interesting thing about this year's show is how much emphasis there isn't vision guided robot . For years we use today. When will -- it robots really come together in a meaningful way. We're really starting to see it now one of the major companies on the show floor is bad that every single robot demo they have had a vision system with the that's quite a breakthrough -- show. If this event we also -- and focused on what's coming act. So we have an emerging robotics civilians but it also vision involved there as well mobile robots. And of course. The Toyota trumpet playing robot which we think it's going to be one of the highlights of the event. It's so much technology that goes into that it's so much of it applies not only in the robot community in the motion control community but also potentially. In the -- community if you get if you get outside the factory -
Robots & Vision - Education in automation
Q Point Robotic Solutions (Cincinnati, OH, USA) has developed a system to teach automation. Rodger Spencer, national sales manager, describes how the system works with a six-axis Denso robot integrated with an Omron color vision system.
point robotic in Cincinnati Ohio we are here at the international robot in vision show in Rosemont. Chicago Illinois. You're presenting our Houston 101 dash me. Which is our educational teaching system which we provide to high level universities. And companies throughout North America for training and automation. It's featuring the heart of the system it's -- is a robot at six axis. Robot . And what we're doing is integrating it. With an old Ryan color vision system. We've seen camera appear to CCD camera --we're using maybe it's 1171000. On this particular application. We -- touch screen . Operator interface panel here which evolved line on besides the vision center board. If there is -- sensors and light sensors on the conveyor that's tracking the X and -- for us. The -- for being picked up by a third vote -- for all of -- the entire system uses one other involved a city. That includes a robot and sent to the court when he horrible DC. She on the palate. And it acts -- the know pre defined. RobotsAnd our control panel here we have AM. Of course 44 volt power supply . -- on PLC on this particular unit. Our comptroller for our shot -- we decided not to go with a pneumatic preparers that we can have this is a complete 110 volt system. No airlines -- whatever control unit or are on here. We also have a control unit for the door conveyor -- to variable speed conveyor. And the rest of the miscellaneous connections and -- connections camera connections robot connections. Safety and -- all of that all of those relays are tied into this control panel. Everything else is external to the robot system and robot controller in the lower right hand portion of the frame. That's -- controller. Is this since we decided to go with a -
Robots & Vision - Biomedical zoom imaging
System integrator Ritco (Amherst, NY, USA) has developed a zoom imaging technology for both microscopic and telescopic applications. President Richard Finn shows a vision application inspecting smart pills with built-in pH sensor.
robotics show in Chicago. What we're showing here today is the -- Zoom system it moves from zoom out to zoom in in a Linear fashion. As opposed to motorized zoom that moves rotary. As a result of that it moves much faster. We have -- zoom out and suddenly zoomed in and focused. Much less than a second. These units are automated so that they can communicate overat something called the smart bill. Not a smart fill his PH sensor on it that's almost too small to -- with the naked eye and that's what we're looking at here on the screen. So the mature can zoom out zoom into that. At very rapid rates and it's very tough little -- of security is able to outlast at least nine --