The solution

Using customer-specific lighting and a Basler ace U camera with 5 MP resolution, the intelligent inspection system from O-Net Industry creates excellent image material of the mouth/nose protection masks. The company’s alignment algorithm uses the images to check whether the masks meet the required standards. For this purpose, the software inspects the shape and size of the masks, the length and attachment points of the ear loops, the length and position of the nose wire and, finally, the edges.

The inspection system automates the manual quality control of the masks and significantly increases the test rate. The highly stable Basler camera improve the overall system stability. This is enormously important, since the production process runs for a long time without interruption. O-Net Industry also uses the Basler pylon Camera Software Suite. This makes it easy to integrate all Basler cameras into the overall system.

Your benefits

• Faster and more secure quality inspection of the masks according to standard specifications
• Special camera stability significantly reduces maintenance costs
• Seamless system development thanks to the developer-friendly Basler pylon Camera Software Suite

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The solution

Helmee’s AOI system consists of three Basler ace cameras, an industrial PC, two industrial robots, a container transport belt and safety barriers. The system automatically lifts the customer parts from the containers, performs a 100 % visual inspection and sorts the parts according to the inspection results.

Helmee recently converted its AOI system from the Basler ace Classic camera to the Basler ace L camera. The reason was that the ace L offers a larger image circle of 1 inch, which means that Helmee can use its own camera lenses. The company uses the Basler pylon Camera Software Suite to communicate with the three ace L cameras.

In addition to the Helmee AOI inspection software, the company developed the Helmee AOI based on patented CSD® technology (Covered Stereo Deflectometry). CSD® is a 3D image processing system that automatically detects all kinds of defects in the high-gloss chrome plating.

Your benefits

• Basler’s ace L camera offers a large image circle of 1 inch and is flexible as well as reliable
• Parts are handled automatically
• Inspection can be integrated into the production process

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The solution

MSTVision uses a fast Basler ace Classic camera for image capture in its own photometric stereo system. It delivers 180 frames per second at 4 MP resolution. The company implements the entire calculation of the photometric stereo in FPGA of the frame grabber microEnable 5 marathon VCLx from Basler. The captured “raw images” are processed directly in the FPGA and, without an additional load on the CPU, the frame grabber provides the results of photometric stereo as four optional images. With VisualApplets, Basler also has a development environment that enables the FPGA to be enhanced with its own functionalities. In this process, the frame grabber handles the actuation of the segmented lighting – synchronously with the image capture.

The extensive parallelization in the FPGA makes it possible to process very high data rates with a low power consumption with each frame grabber. Although it has not been possible to implement the photometric stereo process with high data rates so far, this is now feasible thanks to the FPGA acceleration.

Your benefits

• Photometric stereo with high data rates, suitable for the production environment
• Image processing directly in the FPGA
• No additional CPU load
• Much more compact system architectures

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