Sensor Review: Volume 4 Issue 3

Optical techniques for inspection and sensing

Robert Jones

Cambridge Consultants, in the course of its contract design and development work, is making use of a wide variety of optical methods for inspection and sensing. The author here…

WISARD·a radical step forward in image recognition

I. Aleksander, W.V. Thomas, P.A. Bowden

The WISARD recognition system invented at Brunei University has been developed into an industrialised product by Computer Recognition Systems under licence from the British…

Automatic direct glazing of cars

An automatic direct glazing system for car windscreens and back lights has been installed by Austin Morris on its new Montego line at Cowley. The system was developed by the VS…

Automatic freight calculation in a Japanese warehouse

Jun Suzuki

Over the past ten years about 200 computer‐controlled automatic sorting machines have been installed in Japan. The system described in this article, in use in a retail…

CLIP offers superfast image processing

Since 1969 a team at University College, London, have been developing a superfact architecture (CLIP) for analysing images. The commercial prospects for this system are discussed.

Automated visual inspection of blisters filled with tablets

L. Vanderheydt

This article demonstrates the importance of intelligent measuring systems, particularly computer vision systems for automatic visual inspection.

Array processor speeds postcode reading

Charles Appleby

The very high processing speed of its Linear Array Processor has enabled British Robotic Systems Ltd to win a contract for six character reading systems in a major automation…

Vision·based component feeder teaches itself

A. Browne

Rapid interpretation of component profile data from a linescan camera makes possible a low‐cost method of detecting parts orientation in a feeder. This article was presented as a…