Vision System To Identify Car Body Types For Spray Painting Robot

Peter Uartlam; Geoff Neilson

doi:10.1117/12.939252

16 February 1984 Vision System To Identify Car Body Types For Spray Painting Robot

Peter Uartlam, Geoff Neilson

Proceedings Volume 0449, Intelligent Robots: 3rd Intl Conf on Robot Vision and Sensory Controls; (1984) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.939252
Event: 1983 Cambridge Symposium, 1983, Cambridge, United States

Abstract

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.

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Peter Uartlam and Geoff Neilson "Vision System To Identify Car Body Types For Spray Painting Robot", Proc. SPIE 0449, Intelligent Robots: 3rd Intl Conf on Robot Vision and Sensory Controls, (16 February 1984); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.939252

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