Today, I'll talk about what a robot vision system is. To complete a series of basic activities, such as daily work, life, study, and exercise, a person needs to rely on their body's organs. Besides the brain, the most important are our eyes. Intelligent robots (industrial production) are no exception. For normal production and manufacturing, a robust visual recognition system is required; otherwise, it's just wishful thinking.
What is a robot vision system?
Generally, a machine vision system includes a lighting system, a lens, a camera system, and an image processing system. For each application, we need to consider the system's operating speed and image processing speed, whether to use a color or monochrome camera, whether to detect the size of the target or whether to detect defects, the required field of view, the required resolution, and the required contrast ratio, etc.
Functionally, a typical machine vision system can be divided into three parts: image acquisition, image processing, and motion control.
1. Non-contact measurement does not cause any damage to either the observer or the observed, thereby improving the reliability of the system.
2. It has a wide spectral response range, for example, by using infrared measurements that are invisible to the human eye, thus expanding the visual range of the human eye.
3. Long-term stable operation: Humans find it difficult to observe the same object for a long time, while machine vision can perform measurement, analysis, and recognition tasks for extended periods.
4. The application fields of machine vision systems are becoming increasingly widespread. They have been widely used in industries such as manufacturing, agriculture, defense, transportation, healthcare, finance, and even sports and entertainment, and can be said to have penetrated into all aspects of our lives, production, and work.
In the past few years, domestic electronics manufacturers and many contract manufacturers have purchased a large number of automated equipment to replace manual production in order to cope with the increasingly serious shortage of workers in China. The shortage of manufacturing workers will reach its peak in the future, and factories around the world are choosing to upgrade automation. The wave of automation transformation will reach its peak in the next two or three years, which will be another new growth point for the machine vision industry.
