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Basler buys Silicon Software l advance robot inspection l sales grow 19 per cent l
and UKIVA Automatica
Profile
Greg Blackman looks back at Active Silicon’s 30 years in business
Medical
Keely Portway on the miniature cameras built into endoscopes
Polarisation
Matthew Dale investigates the potential polarised light holds for inspection
Deep learning
Greg Blackman looks at where neural networks are being deployed in industrial imaging
Transport
Dr Constantinos Bouroussis at the National Technical University of Athens describes a mobile imaging system for inspecting tunnel and road lighting
Preview: Photonex
The imaging technology on display at the UK photonics trade fair in Coventry in October
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A roundup of the latest frame grabber releases, including CoaXPress models Products
Vision equipment from around the world Suppliers’ directory
Find the suppliers you need Q&A
Damir Dolar, managing director of Croatian firm Smartek Vision
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Greg Blackman reports from the automation trade fair in Munich, where the latest machine vision technology for bin picking was on display
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he smart factory was high on the agenda at the automation trade fair, Automatica, when it took place in Munich in June. Human-robot
interaction was a major theme, including one very popular demonstration by Schunk and IBG that had robot arms mirroring the movements of their human operator through gesture recognition, even to the point of opening and closing each hand. Digitisation was also a big part of the trade fair; the OPC Foundation and the VDMA released the first version of a machine vision companion specification for the OPC interoperability standard, which will help integrate machine vision products within factories. More about the OPC UA vision standard and other
news from Automatica – in particular technology for bin picking – can be found in the report on page 10. Tis issue also has a feature article on deep learning in industrial imaging (page 24), something that could make robots better at pick-and-place tasks, as well as improving inspection of materials that are otherwise difficult to analyse with a machine. Elsewhere, Keely Portway investigates the miniature
cameras found in endoscopes (page 16), while Matthew Dale examines inspection using polarised light (page 20), as camera manufacturers release models based on Sony’s new CMOS sensor with built- in polarising filters.
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