The vision‐guided robot grows up—a look at the new machine vision technology for robots

Abstract

Looks at the move towards integrating robots with highperformance, fully programmable vision systems. Outlines the problems of traditional vision‐aided robotics and the advantage of modern machine vision technology. The latest generation of machine vision systems combine the capabilities of the “C” program system with graphic “point‐and Click” application development environments based on Microsoft Windows: the Checkpoint system. Describes how the Checkpoint vision systems works and the applications of the new vision guided robots. Concludes that the new systems now make it possible for users and system integrators to being the advantages of vision‐guided robotics to general manufacturing.

Citation

Testa, J. (1995), "The vision‐guided robot grows up—a look at the new machine vision technology for robots", Industrial Robot, Vol. 22 No. 6, pp. 13-15. https://doi.org/10.1108/EUM0000000004194