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Custom optic and lighting solutions
Machine vision demands robust and thoroughly engineered image
conditioning in order to achieve the desired reliability.
As much as 50% of the
development resources devouted to each application goes into designing a good lighting
assembly, often based on ingenuous and heuristic solutions.
No matter what hardware you use, a good image goes with a reliable
application.
Off the shelf LED lighting solutions for machine vision:
Quite often, a custom imaging solution is key to the final succes, as was
the case with this unit, where a coaxial illumnation was obtained by means of mirrors and
beam splitters.
This rugged unit was used in a huge robot developed for avionic structures assembly.
All the time you may think you saved when defining a godd imaging solution will turn
back on you when the application leaves the lab for the field, eventually meeting all the
real life lighting quirks that make our job so difficult.
So, here are our happy programmers, vigorously fiddling with
optics,
prisms, beam splitters, first surface mirrors, super high efficiency LEDs, holographic
film diffusers, laser pattern generators, optic fibers, fresnel lenses, dichroic
reflectors, sophisticated light sources or trivial neon lamps (why not welcome a simple
solution, when it works fine?)
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