Servo - August 2015

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CV2 Vision Systems with Faster Processing, More Cameras

Epson Robots introduces their new Epson CV2 Vision Systems.

With speeds up to 8x faster than their CV1 vision systems, the CV2 versions provide tremendous processing power to help reduce cycle times and increase throughput.

Vision Guide has been used in factories throughout the world to allow their robots to “see." With a unique object-based point and click interface, Vision Guide allows developers to quickly create applications in hours vs. weeks or longer. Also included are the “vision to robot” calibration tools that take just minutes to set up for mobile and fixed camera calibration settings.

At the heart of Vision Guide is the unique object-based point and click interface which allows users to easily define ROIs and apply vision tools by simply dragging and dropping objects onto the image display area. Objects are strung together in a sequence to build a vision application quickly and easily. For example, a Geometric Search Tool could be used to find specific points of interest on a part and then line tools could be applied Tools to then determine the distance between the two points of interest on a part.

Once the distance is checked and the part passes inspection, coordinates from the found location are automatically converted to robot coordinates and the robot moves to pick up the part using those coordinates, including X, Y position and rotation.

CV2 Vision Systems contain powerful CPUs and vision processing that runs in parallel with the Epson RC90 or RC700 controllers, allowing for maximum throughput. The vision systems are equipped with high flex cables (Ethernet or USB) and can be mounted to a robot arm (mobile) or mounted to a fixture (fixed). Wizard based calibration makes robot-to-vision system calibration simple, and allows for upward or downward camera calibrations. With the CV2 Vision Systems, both GigE and USB 2.0 cameras are supported. Up to six cameras (four GigE and two USB 2.0) can be connected to one system.