Chapter 20

Automated Visual Inspection

Humans are good at searching for the unusual and locating faults in manufactured products, but rapidly tire when large number of items have to be scrutinized. The aim of automated visual inspection is to achieve 100% untiring inspection and control of quality. This chapter describes the processes and principles needed to achieve this end, the main limitation being the impossibility of covering the full variety of products in a single chapter.

Look out for:

• the variety of products to be inspected.

• the main categories of inspection.

• how deviations relative to a standard template can be measured.

• the methodology for scrutinizing circular objects.

• the problems of inspecting products exhibiting high ...

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