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Vision Spectra: Summer 2019

Vision Spectra
 Summer 2019


DIGITAL EDITION
FEATURES
Optical Advancements Enable High-Precision 3D Imaging As robotics and automation change the face of manufacturing, demands on industrial inspection have increased. Advancements in engineered point spread function (E-PSF) technology are now allowing...
Laser Triangulation Tackles Imaging Tasks Big and Small Spurred by technological advancements, 3D vision has in recent years moved into the mainstream of automation. The benefits of 3D are increasingly in demand and, as a consequence, the number of...
Great Expectations for Vision-Guided Robotics As the manufacturing world considers the potential for Industry 4.0, machine vision for industrial robotic guidance continues to be a critical enabling technology for realizing the diverse needs of...
Ever-Vigilant: Machine Learning and AI Move into Surveillance The business of surveillance, whether by still or video camera, is booming. It’s being driven by military, industrial, and commercial customers as well as consumers. According to a report by...
EDITORIAL
When only 3D vision will do For barcode reading, label verification, and presence detection, traditional 2D machine vision fits the bill. But for increasingly complex imaging applications — especially where greater resolution is needed or where materials that are difficult to image are inspected — 3D imaging offers advantages. As we learn in this issue’s cover story, “Laser Triangulation Tackles Imaging Tasks...
FIELD OF VIEW
Finding the Sweet Spot in the Machine Vision Value Chain The machine vision market has gained enormous attention from investors, especially over the last three years after the stock prices of several publicly listed vision companies began to skyrocket. At the same time, investors as well as ambitious enterprises are no longer satisfied with growing a company at the same rate as the market. When developing a corporate growth strategy, a detailed look at...
VISION IN ACTION
Wheel and Tire Validation System Offers Quick Inspection To protect drivers and meet government requirements, automotive manufacturers require 100% inspection of every product that leaves a supplier’s facility. Furthermore, inspections have become more sophisticated. Oakley Industries, a just-in-time supplier of tire and wheel assemblies based in Flint, Mich., recently installed the LEONI Wheel & Tire Validation System in two of its plants....
Gap and Flush System a Good Fit for Chrysler Assembly Plant While a crooked painting in your office would certainly catch your notice, a car door askew by less than a millimeter probably wouldn’t. And yet for today’s automotive manufacturers,...
Vision-Guided Robots Pick Ripe Strawberries in Seconds Despite the fact that America’s consumption of strawberries is rising, fewer agricultural workers are available to pick them, creating a growing labor shortage in the strawberry fields. Picking...
THE NEWS WIRE
Robotic Machine Vision Solution Can Process Shiny Objects A solution that enables industrial robots to scan and manipulate metallic objects that have been too “shiny” for machine vision to process has been developed by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and ROS-Industrial, the industry consortium initiated by SwRI in 2012 to support cost-shared applied research and development for advanced factory automation. The project integrates...
Active Silicon Expands in the UK Active Silicon has opened a new, state-of-the-art production and operations facility in Langley, England, where the company has relocated its assembly, testing, inspection, and supply chain functions.
Boston Dynamics Acquires Deep-Learning Specialist Kinema Systems Boston Dynamics announced the acquisition of Kinema Systems, a robotics startup in Silicon Valley that builds advanced robotic manipulation applications. Kinema Pick, their initial product, joins...
Adversarial Learning Techniques Test Image Detection Systems Engineers at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) are finding and documenting vulnerabilities in machine learning algorithms that can make objects “invisible” to image detection systems...
ZEISS, Microsoft Bring Real-Time Data to Production Line Zeiss has developed a data sharing and spectroscopy measurement solution that uploads to the cloud real time production data and analysis based on Microsoft Azure, resulting in connected factories.
American Machine Vision Market Hits Record Numbers for 6th Straight Year ANN ARBOR, Mich., March 28, 2019 — North American sales of machine vision components and systems that provide vision intelligence to robots and other machines reached $2.874 billion in 2018, an...
DBR Suppresses Spectral Crosstalk for Improved IR Imaging Performance Northwestern University engineers discovered a way to suppress spectral crosstalk between dual-band long-wavelength photodetectors. Their findings could reduce image distortion and improve IR imaging...
FOCAL POINT
Focal Point with Cognex’s Reto Wyss What will deep learning mean to machine vision and automation? For four decades, tool-based vision has dominated the scene; people developed algorithms and solutions from the pixel up to solve a particular problem. It has been a very valuable and reliable approach, but there has always been a class of problems where traditional rule-based strategies were insufficient. As a result, humans had to...
PRODUCTS
5GBASE-T PoE Cameras 12.3- and 31.4-MP Atlas Cameras from LUCID Vision Labs Inc. feature 5GBASE-T Power over Ethernet. The Atlas industrial cameras are designed for applications requiring high bandwidth and high...
LUCID Vision Labs Inc.
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SWIR Camera The SenS II Short Wave Infrared (SWIR) camera from Pembroke Instruments LLC employs a patented InGaAs sensor that can be set to operate in three modes of operation. Linear response mode is...
Pembroke Instruments LLC
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Compact Entry-Level Scan Head The basiCube 14 from SCANLAB GmbH is an entry-level scan head in a compact class. A 14-mm aperture helps with high-precision marking using small spots, making it ideal in electronics labeling...
SCANLAB GmbH
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Gardasoft FP200 Series The FP200 series of lighting controllers from Gardasoft Vision Ltd. is suitable for a range of machine vision applications. The controllers combine capabilities for high-frequency, high-power...
Gardasoft Vision Ltd.
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Single-Cable CoaXPress Cameras The boost series of cameras from Basler AG features a CoaxPress 2.0 interface and CMOS sensor technology for high data rates. The camera delivers high resolutions and high frame rates with a...
Basler AG
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Medium-Format Machine Vision Camera The iXM-MV medium-format machine vision camera from Phase One Industrial is available in resolutions of 150- and 100-MP, in both RGB and achromatic models. Leveraging technology innovations...
3D Compact Sensors The MCS Series of modular 3D compact sensors from Automation Technology GmbH combine high-end 3D technology and laser electronics in a compact IP67 housing for use in even in the harshest industrial...
AT - Automation Technology GmbH
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MWIR Camera Cores FLIR Systems Inc. has announced three Neutrino midwave-IR (MWIR) camera cores, expanding its cooled camera core family for commercial, industrial, and defense OEM and system integrators. The...
Teledyne FLIR Systems Inc.
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Model 228 UV Lens The Model 228 UV lens from Resolve Optics is a full-featured high-performance UV lens designed for forensic and fingerprinting, research, and industrial applications. The device’s waveband is...
Resolve Optics Ltd.
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4K IP Board Camera The 4K DOL WDR IP Board Camera from Videology is designed for government surveillance, aerospace, and industrial applications. The camera incorporates 4K resolution, digital overlap wide dynamic...
Videology Industrial-Grade Cameras
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VISION SPECTRA 2019
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