The automation of car body spray booth operations employing paint spraying robots generally requires the robots to execute one of a number of defined routines according to the car body type. A vision system is described which identifies a car body type by its shape and provides an identity code to the robot controller thus enabling the correct routine to be executed. The vision system consists of a low cost linescan camera, a flucrescens light source and a microprocessor image analyser and is an example of a cost effective, reliable, industrially engineered robot vision system for a demanding production environment. Extension of the system with additional cameras will increase the application to the other automatic operations on a car assembly line where it becomes essential to reliably differentiate between up to 40 vatiations of body types.
Vision System To Identify Car Body Types For Spray Painting Robot
Intelligent Robots: 3rd Intl Conf on Robot Vision and Sensory Controls ; 1983 ; Cambridge,United States
Proc. SPIE ; 0449 ; 280
1984-02-06
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
Vision system to identify car body types for a spray painting robot
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