Embedded PCs enable multiple views

Checking automotive pressure sensors in an automated production line requires viewing the sensors from different angles to check the logo, color coding, and laser printing. Multicamera machine-vision systems based on embedded PCs can be particularly effective in tasks requiring simultaneous viewing of an object from several different points of view. For this purpose, Vision & Control (Suhl, Germany; www.vision-control.com) has developed the vicosystem, which contains an embedded PC that helps connect up to eight monochrome or color cameras of differing resolutions and image-acquisition speeds. On startup of the system, all the attached cameras are automatically recognized and parameters established based on the company's pictor machine-vision library. The PC-based vcwin user interface is used to create the inspection sequence. A dedicated image data bus is available for up to four cameras.