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VC 3D smart camera from SICK IVP: 2D programming with 3D results!
The freely programmable 3D camera
- The all-in-one solution: with integrated lens, integrated illumination and integrated evaluation
- Measure volumes, profiles and shapes - regardless of object colour
- Reliable function even under harsh industrial conditions
- High immunity against ambient light
- Extremely quick image detection for rapidly moving objects
- Encoder input for undistorted images
IVC 2D smart camera from SICK IVP: A glance suffices
The freely programmable 2D camera
- Freely programmable with comprehensive image-processing library
- Camera and accessories: all from a single source
- Industrial Ethernet connection for simple remote diagnosis
- Robust, industry-oriented housing
- Plug-compatible connections for trigger and illumination
SensoPart's new FA 45 vision sensor
Hella Ltd. (Banbury) produces amongst others brake lights for Land Rover. These are light lines that consist of 20 separate LEDs. So far, operability and brightness of the LED lines had to be checked by visual inspection. Automating the process turned out to be difficult: Classic colour sensors could not be used, because they work on the reflectance method and cannot detect the colours of self-luminous objects; an image processing system with colour camera was beyond question for reasons of economy.
SensoPart Industriesensorik GmbH solved the problem by means of their new FA 45 vision sensor: In one single measuring sequence it finds out whether each of the 20 LEDs is functioning, has the correct colour and reaches the pre-set intensity value. By means of an AND-relation of the results, faulty operation or misassembly of individual LEDs can be reliably excluded. As at the test station two different models with varying LED arrangement have to be checked, two FA45 were placed side by side.
Configuration without special knowledge Thanks to the PC configuration software that is intuitively operated, the configuration of the FA 45 is very easy. All settings are made on only one screen; the user does not need to scroll menus. Graphic features such as colours, dimen-sions and measuring windows are easily defined with the mouse in a live image of the target object.
Up to 32 separate characteristics can thus be defined and sequentially connected; for the Hella application, 20 were needed (one characteristic per LED). The features can also be polled via the serial interface of the sensor, so that the test procedure can be controlled by the higher-level system.
