May 2019 snapshots: Machine learning system assists animal conservation efforts, image sensors for detecting exoplanets, fully-automated test processes for aircraft cockpits, and hyperspectral instruments to study climate change.

May 1, 2019

Automated Reconnaissance Drone Picture From Air

Embedded Vision

Vision-guided drone supports flood and coastal protection efforts

May 1, 2019

Figure 1: In each of Byrne’s three assembly cells, two six-axis robots work with a 4-camera Datalogic machine vision system to pick parts, assemble and inspect outlets. The final pack out cell uses an LMI Gocator 3D snapshot sensor for final inspection.

Cameras and Accessories

Machine vision system identifies and locates pickable parts for robotic assembly cell

May 1, 2019

The MiR200 robot loops around Metro Plastic’s factory floor every 10 minutes, allowing operators to load finished products as soon as they fill a box. This has eliminated clutter and traffic on the floor, reduced the risk of injuries associated with forklift driving, and improved the efficiency of the company’s quality inspections and overall operations.

Factory Automation

Autonomous mobile robot improves safety and efficiency at plastic injection molding facility

May 1, 2019

Figure 1: Canned food, bottles, engine parts, and electronic sub-assemblies may be checked for correct label orientation, fill levels, barcodes, and the presence/absence of components. Such high-speed production systems themselves must also be monitored to diagnose any mechanical failure that may occur.

Cameras and Accessories

High-speed cameras target process monitoring applications

May 1, 2019

More content from Volume 24, Issue 5

Kelzal’s cameras deploy event-based image sensors to enable efficient, high-speed imaging.

Cameras and Accessories

Event-based cameras target surveillance, autonomous vehicle applications

Many of today’s imaging systems such as those used in security and surveillance, retail automation, and autonomous vehicles deploy cameras with frame-based image sensors. When...

May 1, 2019

Automotive Manufacturing

The five people in your life

Sunday night before the first day of the Automate 2019 show in Chicago, we were hit with the terrible news that we lost our friend Andrew (Andy) Charles Wilson, the founding editor...

May 1, 2019

Figure 1: Nippon Systemware (NSW) offers an IP core for haze reduction that can be used with both Altera (Intel) and Xilinx devices. The so-called “Haze Reduction Engine” is used to reduce haze or fog in RGB images and is targeted at such applications as networked surveillance cameras and smart vehicles.

Embedded Vision

Low-cost development tools reduce the cost of embedded vision

FPGAs, reconfigurable processors, systems-on-a-chip (SOC) and off-the shelf development software are speeding the time to market of embedded vision systems. In a recent article...

May 1, 2019