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Vision Guidance Increases Robots' Utility

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Paula M. Powell, Senior Editor

Take the robot — basically a blind beast of burden — add vision capability, and you now have an incredibly flexible fixture. It can load machine tools, inspect weld seams on an automobile, distinguish between the palest yellow and white on car doors or perform a variety of other complex tasks accurately and repeatably — all at fairly high production-line speeds. Something as simple as robotic guidance can be accurate to within 1 mm or less, even in less-than-ideal environments, at least from the standpoint of vision. For example, backlighting may be infeasible or simply costprohibitive....Read full article

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    Published: October 2003
    CommunicationsConsumerFeaturesmachine toolsrobotic guidanceSensors & Detectorsvision capabilityweld seams

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