...Annalisa Milella; Rosalia Maglietta; Massimo Caccia; Gabriele Bruzzone Purpose Periodic inspection of large tonnage vessels is critical to assess integrity and prevent structural failures that could have catastrophic consequences for people and the environment. Currently, inspection operations...

... needs with the rapid advances being made by sensor device and inspection system suppliers to offer innovative ways to better inspect components. Originality/value Manufacturers are finding answers to many quality assessment needs with the rapid advances being made by sensor device and inspection...

... the effectiveness of the applied thresholding scheme. Automotive industry Optical instruments Lasers Optical measurement Inspection The targeted gap in this study is part of a vehicle interior trim; shown pictorially in Figure 1 . Inspecting this figure illustrates the non‐parallelism...

... sensors Inspection Measurement Cameras Machine vision systems are now well established for industrial inspection and quality control. The development of the smart camera with its integrated lighting and processing capability, rugged housing and powerful interfacing has revolutionized the vision...

.... In the automotive industry, 3D measurement applications include inspection of stamped sheet metal for curvature and surface defects, inspection of castings, power train components, plastics, glass, and composite car body assembly from a variety of subassemblies. In the defense industry, mobile 3D sensors are being...

... performance with reduced number of hall sensors in an equipment for pipeline inspection called caliper tool. Design/methodology/approach The paper opts for an exploratory study by making various configurations of sensors possible under given constraints, analyzing results of each one of them...

...Yih‐Chih Chiou; Chern‐Sheng Lin; Guan‐Zi Chen Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present an automatic inspection method of colors and textures classification of paper and cloth objects. Design/methodology/approach In this system, the color image is transformed from RGB model to other...

... technology innovation, complements traditional inspection methodologies without being disruptive. Design/methodology/approach The paper compares traditional and new measurement processes and asks how modern techniques can become more efficient, faster and more economical. Findings This paper shows...

...Rajesh Keshwani; Shiben Bhattacharya Purpose The purpose of this paper is to introduce an in line non‐destructive inspection tool instrumented pipeline inspection gauge (IPIG) and the need for secondary sensors in it; and to design a proper configuration of eddy current based secondary sensor...

.../methodology/approach An inspection system based on machine vision is presented which could assure illumination and imaging at 940 nm which is safe for film. Findings An objective evaluation is given using an image processing method and satisfactory results are obtained. Now, the inspection system is used...

..., reverting to its original June timing having been displaced this year by some football event! Plate 1 Multiple Claas laser stripe sensors check a camshaft © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Visual programming Trade fairs Optical instruments Inspection When...

.... Acceleration is an important parameter in studying modes of vibration of a structure. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Buildings Fibre‐optic sensors Inspection Sensors To ensure the safety of buildings, bridges, tunnels and dams and to make their maintenance more effective...

... in this testing (single crystal, zero rake tool from Edge Technologies), the theoretical surface finish, in the absence of structural vibration, is 100 nm peak‐to‐valley and 30 nm R_a. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Inspection Optimization techniques...

... Visual perception Inspection Agriculture and food technology Ten years ago the research team at the National Centre for Engineering in Agriculture had already established a reputation for vision‐based automated guidance of agricultural vehicles. More recently, a succession of vision projects...

.... © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Optical instruments Food industry Inspection Near‐infrared (NIR) spectroscopy is a powerful tool for the examination of food and drink. Researchers have shown that it can detect fungal microtoxins and insect infestations in cereal crops...

... © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 --> Image sensors Inspection Tinplate can defects wiped out using industrial grade vision from Cognex Keywords: Image sensors, Inspection MIVISA's mission is to serve its customers, providing the widest product range...

... by an adjacent conventional 2D CMOS imager, distinguishes between the real postage stamps and non‐postage‐stamp stickers or near look‐alikes of stamps printed directly on the envelope. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Robotics Inspection Automotive industry Trade fairs Until 2003...

... production. Specifically, machine vision is used for robust part inspection, operator part placement verification, 3D robotic guidance, and a combination thereof. These solutions to car‐making certainly suggest other applications in other industries. With new and more versatile robots with more and more...

...Brian Rooks A report on the Total Engineering and Manufacturing (TEAM) exhibition held at the NEC, Birmingham with a focus on vision and optical systems for inspection and measurement. New low cost and high speed smart cameras were introduced by DVT, who was “hidden” away within the Design...

... Inspector is a complete software package, costing £1,050, that brings all the functionality of their MIL image processing libraries. The point and click environment and scripting facility enable the users, who are not programmers, to set up automatic inspection procedures. It is used, for example...