Vision System Prototype for Inspection and Monitoring with a Smart Camera
This is an incremental educational tool for undergraduate, master, and diploma students to learn embedded systems, artificial vision, and automation topics.
The paper presents a prototype artificial vision system for automatic inspection and monitoring of objects on a conveyor belt using a Smart camera 2D BOA-INS, designed for educational purposes to simulate a continuous production line with quality control.
This paper presents the design of an artificial vision system prototype for automatic inspection and monitoring of objects over a conveyor belt and using a Smart camera 2D BOA-INS. The prototype consists of a conveyor belt and an embedded system based on an Arduino Mega card for system control, and it has as main peripherals the smart camera, a direct current motor, a photoelectric sensor, LED illumination and LEDs indicating the status (good or defect) of each evaluated object. The application of the prototype is for educational purposes, so that undergraduate, master and diploma students can simulate a continuous production line, controlled by an embedded system, and perform quality control by monitoring through a visual system and a personal computer. This allows implementing the topics of embedded systems, artificial vision, artificial intelligence, pattern recognition, automatic control, as well as automation of real processes.