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Some customers asked us how to do robotic visual inspection. It is not possible with our camera, which is dedicated at vision guided pick & place. Who has done inspection in the past? @yuvarajoo can you explain how you did it in the video below?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiwNC2iOa-k

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Turns out you can do some visual inspection with your Robotiq camera, but only part detection visual inspection as explained by @Catherine_Bernier
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We we also used vision to inspect ink jet printing on stainless steel strip moving at roughly 1000 feet per minute. The camera would read the message that was printed about every 8" and then either accept the lettering or spray a reject mark onto the band that the machine would use to reject the bad section of band.
Cognex, Microscan, Sensopart, Keyence and others all make vision inspection systems. Prices can vary from $2000 to close to $10000 or possibly more depending on what you need to do exactly what you are trying to accomplish. Lighting is extremely important and can be a little like black magic.
I'm sure there are other pros that can chime in on this as well.
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The applications themselves were programmed and ran on the smart camera, then were called via software triggers over TCP/IP from the robot. The TCP/IP interfacing was a little clunky, but it worked reliably once it was configured. It certainly would have been nice to have a smooth UR+ tie-in for the camera.Ryan Weaver | Automation Engineer | Axis New England
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