Thermal imaging & vision systems
FILTER APPLICATION TECHNOLOGIES
The use of filters to block out certain bandwidths of light is nothing new in itself, but the technologies for applying filters to industrial cameras are evolving. For example, adapters for M12 lenses are now available that allow ambient light to be filtered out in the same way as with c-mount lenses. This means M12 lenses can be deployed in light sensitive applications, such as in robotics systems for factories where ambient light is constantly changing. The use of filters that only allow light in the near infrared bandwidth is commonly used to mitigate against varying ambient light.
10 GigE PROTOCOL
As the successor to GigE, 10GigE provides the same benefits but with a ten-fold increase in data rate and frame rate. To take a step back, historically, machine vision system designers have had a choice of GigE or USB3 as the protocols for transmitting high-speed video and related data over ethernet networks. This decision tended to hinge on the length of cable required, which in turn related to the number of cameras. USB is rated for five metres or less, whereas a GigE interface can function with a cable length up to 100 metres. The trade off with a one GigE interface is speed - a USB3 cable can transmit data five times faster than a One GigE system. The advent of 10GigE will enable the capabilities of high performing image sensors - until now, limited by the bandwidth that could be achieved with the available interfaces - to be realised and exploited.
Instrumentation Monthly April 2023
EMBEDDED VISION
These low cost cameras are increasingly infiltrating the industrial world. The main difference between embedded vision and machine vision is that embedded camera technology is far simpler owing to limited data processing capacity. This means it is more suited to gathering data, which is then analysed on a cloud-based platform, than processing online data and making decisions in real-time. There are several examples of embedded cameras being used in a commercial context: in vertical farms they are monitoring and adjusting ambient conditions for optimum plant growth; and in a retail context they are utilised in stock-taking robots.
STEREO VISION FOR THE MASSES
In the past, stereo vision was seen as the domain of experts and required investment in costly software. Now, thanks to the development of low cost stereo vision sensors by companies such as Arducam, cameras can be paired with open source stereo vision AI algorithms and 3D capabilities to create systems that are very proficient at depth sensing - an example might be a robot that navigates its way around a warehouse. The limitations of this technology should be respected though - the hardware is not capable of tasks that require accuracy and repeatability, which is the domain of traditional and dedicated machine vision cameras.
Scorpion Vision offers a complete range of industrial cameras and optics, from low cost, low resolution embedded cameras and boards to high resolution cameras with large sensors for more demanding machine vision applications. Scorpion’s expansive catalogue of hardware and software products provides state-of-the-art building blocks for OEMs and system integrators. Scorpion represents HIKROBOT, The Imaging Source, Arducam and Hypersen in the UK and Ireland for industrial cameras and other accessories.
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