Success Story – Kleinstobjekte zählen mit einer Zeilenkamera

Success Story

Count­ing of min­i­mal objects by using a line-scan camera

Def­i­n­i­tion of a project

Def­i­n­i­tion of a project In an appli­ca­tion round objects with a diam­e­ter of 400μm should be count­ed. The objects ver­ti­cal­ly fall through a glass tube at a speed of approx. 2,5m/s and land in a prod­uct there.

An already exist­ing sys­tem has count­ed the objects by means of pho­to sen­sors. Here inac­cu­ra­cies occur the objects iso­lat­ed jump back into the glass tube. The cause for that is dis­ad­van­ta­geous strik­ing in the prod­uct. In that case the exist­ing pho­to sen­sor sys­tem counts the object sev­er­al times.

Method of res­o­lu­tion of image processing

An image pro­cess­ing sys­tem with a line-scan cam­era should solve the prob­lem. By the spe­cial adjust­ment of the cam­era the image pro­cess­ing sys­tem makes it pos­si­ble to deter­mine the fall direc­tion of the objects only with one camera.

By that the real round object is reg­is­tered as inclined oval object. On the basis of the incli­na­tion of the object it becomes pos­si­ble to deter­mine the fall direc­tion. In that case jump­ing objects are real­ized as such and are not counted.

Addi­tion­al advantages

Besides the con­sid­er­ably increased mea­sure­ment accu­ra­cy the image pro­cess­ing sys­tem offers fur­ther inter­est­ing advan­tages com­pared with a „blind“ sys­tem. The reg­is­tered objects are already dis­played visu­al­ly dur­ing the process for the oper­at­ing staff. By that the response time for fail­ures is con­sid­er­ably short­ened. Fur­ther­more addi­tion­al mon­i­tor­ing is pos­si­ble. For exam­ple the size of the objects could be mea­sured in order to rec­og­nize devi­a­tions in speed.

Pos­si­ble upgrad­ing variants

By that sys­tem also small­er and faster objects can be rec­og­nized. The com­mu­ni­ca­tion with oth­er con­trol sys­tems is pos­si­ble via TCP/IP or dig­i­tal IOs.

Flex­i­ble con­fig­u­ra­tion based on experience

The team of Qual­i­ty Automa­tion GmbH resorts to great expe­ri­ence in the field of image pro­cess­ing. This enables a com­pre­hen­sive advi­so­ry ser­vice and a flex­i­ble inte­gra­tion of the sys­tems at the customer.

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QA Mitarbeiter Michael Lambertz
Dipl.-Ing. Michael Lambertz
Software Engineer
Specializations: Control Engineering, Machine Vision
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