Robot Vision in Industrial Assembly and Quality Control Processes

Abstract

The application of robot vision in robot assembly and control processes provides immense potential and challenges, at the same time, for both research and industrial applications, as can be seen by the recent developments summarized in this chapter. It can easily be perceived that the next generation of assembly technology will include versatile robot vision systems with a high level of versatility and robustness. The chapter provides a brief overview of the most recent research efforts in the area of machine vision in assembly and control processes. Various approaches and issues relating assembly, robot assembly, robot vision and object recognition including the bin picking problem are addressed.