Five Considerations for Choosing your Vision System
From inspecting the packaging of consumer goods to surveilling traffic to identifying cells with fluorescence, vision techniques are increasingly being used in every industry imaginable. Whether you are using vision to improve the quality of your finished goods, guide your robot, or add traceability to improve your process, here are five considerations to keep in mind when you choose your vision system.
Vision and robotics systems are able to be programmed within one application with LabVIEW and the ImagingLab Robotics Library for DENSO. This paper will cover the calibration between the vision and robot systems to use the same coordinate system.
10 Things to Consider When Choosing Vision Software
National Instruments has been a leader in machine vision and image processing for nearly a decade. NI vision software is available in two packages -- the NI Vision Development Module and NI Vision Builder for Automated Inspection (AI). The Vision Development Module contains hundreds of vision functions to use with National Instruments LabVIEW, NI LabWindows/CVI, C/C++, or Visual Basic to program powerful vision inspection, alignment, identification, and measurement applications. Vision Builder AI is an interactive software environment for configures, benchmarking and deploying machine vision applications without programming. Both software packages work with all NI vision frame grabbers and the NI Compact Vision System. This white paper outlines 10 important points to consider when choosing vision software.
Using the NI 17xx Smart Camera Direct Drive Lighting Controller
The use of proper lighting is often overlooked when designing a machine vision application. More robust and accurate
inspections can be achieved when appropriate lighting techniques are utilized. With the NI 17xx Smart Camera Direct
Drive integrated lighting controller, LED lights can be powered directly from the camera without requiring an external
controller, providing a quicker and lower cost development cycle.
