3D Machine Vision from Canon coming to Europe
Canon has signaled its intention to tap into the 3D machine vision systems market for industrial robots, by bringing 3D Machine Vision systems to Europe. The Canon RV300 and RV500 and RV1100 3D machine vision Systems will go on sale in Europe in August 2015.
3D machine vision for use with industrial robots is estimated to be worth some 2.75 billion yen worldwide. And the market for 3D machine vision for robotics is expected to grow significantly in the future, driven by strong demand for the further automation of production lines used by manufacturers in a variety of industries, including automotive and automotive component manufacturers.
Canon Europe says its 3D machine vision systems for use with industrial robots are capable of high-speed, high-accuracy three-dimensional recognition of objects. Using the 3D machine vision systems in combination with a robotic arm can increase production efficiencies in factories by facilitating the automatic high-speed supply of parts to production lines.
A 3D machine vision system capable of the three-dimensional recognition of the shapes of the parts is required to enable a robotic arm to accurately and successively recognise and pick up individual items from a randomly-assembled pile of parts. The new Canon RV300 and RV500 3D machine vision systems expand a product line-up already featuring the Canon RV1100 3D machine vision system, originally launched in Japan in April 2014.
Contributing to improved production line efficiency, both the RV300 and RV500 3D machine vision systems deliver high-speed performance, taking only approximately 1.8 seconds to recognise randomly arranged small-scale parts in 3D and send this data to a robotic controller unit attached to the robotic arm
The Canon systems feature a 3D machine vision head, which encompasses the system sensor and 3D machine vision recognition software, responsible for recognition processing. Canon says the high-speed, high-accuracy three-dimensional object recognition capabilities of the new 3D machine vision system were made possible by applying innovative image-recognition and information-processing technologies, cultivated through the company’s research and development of cameras and business machines.
Canon’s 3D machine vision systems can accurately recognise a diverse range of objects including parts with curved features, parts with few distinguishing characteristics, and intricately structured parts.
The RV300 RV500 and RV1100 3D machine vision systems enable the 3D recognition of randomly piled parts as small as approximately 10mm², 20mm² and 45mm² respectively.
Contributing to improved production line efficiency, both the RV300 and RV500 3D machine vision systems deliver high-speed performance, taking only approximately 1.8 seconds to recognise randomly arranged small-scale parts in 3D and send this data to a robotic controller unit attached to the robotic arm.
The new 3D machine vision systems feature high-performance 3D recognition with a high level of accuracy, with the RV300 and RV500 3D machine vision systems achieving error tolerances of less than 0.1mm and 0.15mm respectively.
Visit the Canon Europe website for more information on 3D machine vision systems.
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