Adept PCBased Machine Vision Hex Sight and Adept

Adept PC-Based Machine Vision Hex. Sight and Adept i. Sight

Adept Technology Leader in Vision-Motion Control for Small Parts Assembly & Handling

Fast, robust object location • High performance - geometric object location o Performs well in harsh environments o Scale and rotation independent • High accuracy - 1/50 th pixel or better • Model-based inspection tools

Robustness • Can locate faster in poorer visibility • Objects can be occluded, overlapping, touching

Unique, powerful contour recognition • Best in subpixel accuracy • Scales easily - from simple to complex object finding

Fast & portable calibration • Calibration ensures excellent subpixel accuracy • Calibrate for: o lens distortion o perspective distortion o pixel size • Portable calibration files: reuse calibrations

Model-based object finding • Automatic model-teaching • Model creation & edition o Create and edit either programmatically or through User Interface • Portable Models o Save and reuse across applications o Share across calibrated vision setups

Model-based tool positioning • Tools can be positioned on Model instances • Model-based tools are applied to found object in its “as found” position • Edge Locator, Caliper, Blob Analyzer, geometric Finder tools, etc.

Designed for embedding Integration made easier by multiple packaging options: o Active. X controls o DLL C++ libraries on Windows (fully compatible with. NET environment) o Static C++ libraries Platform independent o Algorithms can be ported to various platforms and Operating Systems o Algorithms can be ported to most processors

Hex. Sight 3. 3 Quick Facts • All tools available as C++ Libraries • Fully compliant with the. NET development environment • New basic setup mode for the Locator • Locator made model-based (cascaded) o Accurate location of sub-features of varying scale and rotation • New application examples o How to integrate Locator as a DLL (OEM use) o New Locator example

New innovative addition in Hex. Sight 3. 3 • Locator made modelbased (cascaded Locators) o Accurate location of sub-features of varying scale and rotation

Applications: Automotive Tire thread inspection Brake pads inspection

Applications: Consumer Electronics Disk Drive Cassette inspection Disk Drive Head inspection

Applications: Electronics Components Regulators inspection

Applications: Food Donuts location (for pick) and inspection

Applications: Consumer Products (Cosmetics) Perfume bottles identification and location (for pick by an Adept robot)

Vision Guidance Integration 1. Vision Tools & Algorithms + + _____ 2. Camera & Robot Calibration Adept Integration equals Simplicity 3. Transformations & Control Performance Applications: Refine Pick Place Supportability

Vision on-the-fly

Vision-based Flexible Feeding

Packaging with vision and conveyor tracking

Value through broadening market applications Intelligent 3 D FLEX Assembly Multi Product Assembly Control Vision Assembly Conveyer Tracking Vision not Pick & required Place Simple Tightly integrated vision, “just like a human” Boxing Take Out Assemble Vision is added-value Alternate Parts to production line Load Movement Assembly Simple Assembly Rigid Bin Picking Small-Lot Assembly Unload Two Handed Work Movement Complex

The cost of complexity Synchronization • Technical risk and cost go hand-in-hand Tolerance Communications Calibration User interface Risk increases as a multiple of complexity

Opportunities Systems Install Integrators ↓ Commissioning time • Avoid competitive battles on labor cost Operate • Focus on overall system (structure, sequence, etc. ) OEMs Productivity • Sharpen focus on strategic market value, (not on fine details of technical components) Design Profitability ↓ Programming effort ↓ Setup time ↑ Plant production ↓ Setup time Users • Raise plant ROI by lowering CAPEX • Increase opportunities Maintain to make money on lower volume products ↓ Unscheduled downtime

Vision Guidance Integration Vision guidance made easy Combination of Adept Desk. Top, vision software, camera and accessories in a single pre-validated package.

Adept i. Sight Overview Vision guidance made easy • Open, PC-based system • Turnkey system o Out-of-the-box solution o Vision software, camera, lens and accessories • Add-on to Adept Desk. Top and Adept Cobra i-series o Seamlessly integrated with Adept Desk. Top environment

Adept i. Sight Overview • Product family o First for Cobra i-series, expanding later on to other controls and mechanisms • Ease of use o Point-and-click vision application development • Simplicity o Robustness of the vision tools makes deployment easy • Performance o Benefits from the fastest and most robust geometric object locator

Building an application

A few simple steps… • • • Creating and editing modeles Creating the vision sequence Calibrating vision and robot-to -vision

Adept i. Sight User Interface Watch instances found Configure the tool parameters Drop tools in the toolbox Get found instances data

Applications: Medical devices Medical Infusion bags packaging • Multiple mechanisms • One or more cameras • Conveyor tracking with feeders/conveyors • High precision • Applications: o o Food packaging Pharmaceutical packaging Flexible part manufacturing Multi-product assembly

Applications: Electronics Assembly Electronics components flexible feeding and assembly

Applications: Electronics Assembly High precision screwdriving cell for disk drive assembly

Applications: Coinage Quality inspection and location for pick

Backup

Finder Tools • Arc Finder, Line Finder, Point Finder o Search Area that is defined by Position X, Position Y, Width, Thickness, Radius (for arc), and Rotation. o Multiple instances o Results output in either Image, World, Object, Tool coordinate systems. o Search for Dark To Light, Light To Dark, or either transition in greylevel values. o Supports edgestrength, sampling, and tolerance filtering of results

Builder Tools • Computed geometric features that have been created using output from other tools - Arc Finder, Line Finder, Point Finder, or another instance of the Builder tool.

Arc Caliper • • The Arc Caliper tool finds, locates and measures the gap between one or more edge pairs on an object within a bounded area (called a Sector). Arc Caliper uses pixel gray level values within the Sector to build projections, either annular or radial, needed for edge detection. Can be applied to multiple instances Multitude of configuration options and filtering Sector

Caliper Tool • • The Caliper tool finds, locates and measures the gap between one or more edge pairs on an object within a rectangular bounded area. Caliper uses pixel gray level values within bounded area to build projections needed for edge detection. Can be applied to multiple instances Multitude of configuration options and filtering

Edge Locators • • Arc and rectangular edge detection Once potential edges have been located, the Edge Locator scores these edges according to user-defined criteria and then returns results for valid edges it has located.

Blob Analyzer • Finds, labels and analyzes geometric and gray level properties of irregular shaped objects. o Hole analysis, o Contour information, o Area, position, perimeter, roundness, moments of inertia, elongation, center of mass, o Bounding box characteristics, o Gray level statistics

Pattern Locator • Detects low contrast or small features such as letters, numbers, symbols and logos on a part. o Patterns that can provide well defined contours can be modeled and found by the Locator tool. • Useful for o Detecting the presence/absence of a grayscale pattern on a modeled object (Locator). o Finding the rotation of a symmetric object using features on the object. o Classifying objects having the same contours by their grayscale features.

Image Processing Tools • Arithmetic Operations o Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division, Lightest and Darkest. • Assignment Operations o Initialization, Copy and Inversion. • Transform Operations o Fast Fourier Transform, Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) output as 1 D Linear, 2 D Logarithmic or Histogram. • Logical Operations o And, Nand, Nor, Or and Xor. • Filtering Operations o Convolution operation using standard or custom kernal. Filters include Average, Gaussian, Horizontal Prewitt, Vertical Prewitt, Horizontal Sobel, Vertical Sobel, High Pass, Laplacian, Sharpen. Low and Median • Morphological Operations o Dilate, Erode, Close and Open • Histogram Operations o Equalization, Stretching, Light Threshold and Dark Threshold

Image Sharpness Tool • Used for verification or validation of the image sharpness of an image before it is processed by other tools. o Can also be used as a building block for implementing auto focus with motorized focus lens using sharpness value to close the loop.

Other Tools • Histogram Tool • Sampling Tool • Barcode Reader o Code 128, UPC-E, Code 39, UPC Supplemental, Code 93, PDF-417, Interleaved 2 of 5, BC 412, Codabar, Postnet, UPC/EAN, Pharmacode • OCR Fixed Font o Up to four lines of character strings having same font. o SEMI, OCR-A, and OCR-B. • Data Matrix Reader (2 -D Symbology)