NOVEMBER 28--Frost & Sullivan (www.frost.com), a global growth consulting company, has selected Adept Technology (Palo Alto, CA; www.adept.com) as the recipient of its 2005 2D Robotic Vision Guidance Excellence in Technology of the Year Award in recognition of the company's development of innovative, high-performance vision systems for robotic guidance. Each year, Frost & Sullivan presents this award to a company that has pioneered the development and introduction of an innovative technology into the market--a technology that has either impacted or has the potential to impact several market sectors. This award recognizes a company's successful technology development that is expected to bring significant contributions to the industry in terms of adoption, change, and competitive posture. It also recognizes the overall technical excellence of a company and its commitment toward technology innovation.
Adept's robotic guidance technology tightly integrates innovative PC-based machine vision with its robotic and motion control systems. The guidance system works seamlessly with Adept's Cobra i-Series SCARA robots, making vision guidance applications faster and more powerful. In particular, Adept's vision guidance system, Adept iSight, is based on the Hexsight Machine Vision Software library. The Hexsight Software library consists of an extensive set of vision tools, among which is the Locator, a geometric object location tool capable of recognizing multiple objects regardless of their orientation, scale, and high similarity. This software permits the advanced disambiguation of highly similar objects. The geometric location tool, on the other hand, enables easy commissioning of the vision system with minimal operator effort. Such geometric location offers the highest levels of accuracy and robustness for a 2D guidance system.