A New Robotic 3D Inspection System of Automotive Screw Hole

  • Baeg, Moon-Hong (Applied Robot Technology Division, KITECH) ;
  • Baeg, Seung-Ho (Applied Robot Technology Division, KITECH) ;
  • Moon, Chan-Woo (College of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Kookmin University) ;
  • Jeong, Gu-Min (College of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Kookmin University) ;
  • Ahn, Hyun-Sik (College of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Kookmin University) ;
  • Kim, Do-Hyun (College of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Kookmin University)
  • Published : 2008.10.31

Abstract

This paper presents a new non-contact 3D robotic inspection system to measure the precise positions of screw and punch holes on a car body frame. The newly developed sensor consists of a CCD camera, two laser line generators and LED light. This lightweight sensor can be mounted on an industrial robot hand. An inspection algorithm and system that work with this sensor is presented. In performance evaluation tests, the measurement accuracy of this inspection system was about 200 ${\mu}m$, which is a sufficient accuracy in the automotive industry.

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