• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.32 no.5
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• pp.320-327
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• 2023

In this study, an FPGA-based sealer inspection system was developed to inspect the sealer applied to install vehicle glass on a car body. The sealer is a liquid or paste-like material that promotes adhesion such as sealing and waterproofing for mounting and assembling vehicle parts to a car body. The system installed in the existing vehicle design parts line does not detect the sealer in the glass rotation section and takes a long time to process. This study developed a line laser camera sensor and an FPGA vision signal processing module to solve this problem. The line laser camera sensor was developed such that the resolution and speed of the camera for data acquisition could be modified according to the irradiation angle of the laser. Furthermore, it was developed considering the mountability of the entire system to prevent interference with the sealer ejection machine. In addition, a vision signal processing module was developed using the Zynq-7020 FPGA chip to improve the processing speed of the algorithm that converted the profile to the sealer shape image acquired from a 2D camera and calculated the width and height of the sealer using the converted profile. The performance of the developed sealer application inspection system was verified by establishing an experimental environment identical to that of an actual automobile production line. The experimental results confirmed the performance of the sealer application inspection at a level that satisfied the requirements of automotive field standards.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.117-124
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• 2023

In the machine vision inspection equipment, diameter measurement is important process in inspection of cylindrical object. However, machine vision inspection equipment requires complex algorithm processing such as camera distortion correction and perspective distortion correction, and the increase in processing time and cost required for precise diameter measurement. In this paper, we proposed the algorithm for diameter measurement of cylindrical object using the laser displacement sensor. In order to fit circle for given four input outer points, grid search algorithms using root-mean-square error and mean-absolute error are applied and compared. To solve the limitations of the grid search algorithm, we finally apply the singular-value-decomposition based circle fitting algorithm. In order to compare the performance of the algorithms, we generated the pseudo data of the outer points of the cylindrical object and applied each algorithm. As a result of the experiment, the grid search using root-mean-square error confirmed stable measurement results, but it was confirmed that real-time processing was difficult as the execution time was 10.8059 second. The execution time of mean-absolute error algorithm was greatly improved as 0.3639 second, but there was no weight according to the distance, so the result of algorithm is abnormal. On the other hand, the singular-value-decomposition method was not affected by the grid and could not only obtain precise detection results, but also confirmed a very good execution time of 0.6 millisecond.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.7 no.11
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• pp.405-410
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• 2018

When more parts are mounted in the same time in a surface mount equipment, the total output will increase and will improve productivity. In this paper, we propose a method to reduce the gantry drive time from the suction to the mounting of the component to improve the productivity of the surface mount equipment. The method was to find a way to get the maximum velocity in front of the camera during the vision inspection. In this paper, we have developed a stop-motion, fly1-motion, and fly2-motion drive time calculation algorithms for vision inspection and calculated the driving time of 3 methods and compared them. As a result, the fly1-motion method shortened the time by 13% and the fly2-motion method shortened the time by 18% than the stop-motion method.

• The Journal of Korean Institute for Practical Engineering Education
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.91-97
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• 2012

The automated visual inspection system (machine vision system) for quality assurance is an important factory automation equipment in the manufacturing industries, such as display, semiconductor, etc. The world market of the machine vision components is expected 18 billon dollars in 2015. Therefore, there is a lot of demand for the machine vision engineers. However, there are no technical training courses for machine vision technologies in vocational schools, colleges and universities. In this paper, we propose a technical training program for the machine vision technology. The total time of training is 30 to 60 hours and the training program can operate flexibly by student's major, a priori knowledge and education level.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.347-348
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• 2012

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.285-290
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• 2021

The existing aiming inspection use foreign-made aiming inspection equipment. However, the quantity is insufficient and the difficult to maintain. So it takes a lot of time to inspect the target. This system can reduces the time of aiming inspection and be maintained and distributed smoothly because it is a domestic product. In this paper, we develop a system that can detect targets and monitor shooting results through a target detection deep learning model. The system is capable of real-time detection of targets and has significantly increased the identification rate through several preprocessing of distant targets. In addition, a graphical user interface is configured to facilitate user camera manipulation and storage and management of training result data. Therefore the system can replace the currently used aiming inspection equipment and non-fire training.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Building Construction
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.81-92
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• 2023

According to the 2020 industrial accident reports of the Ministry of Employment and Labor, the number of fatal accidents in the construction industry over the past 5 years has been higher than in other industries. Of these more than 50% of fatal accidents are initially caused by fall accidents. The central government is intensively managing falling/jamming protection device and the use of personal protective equipment to eradicate the inappropriate factors disrupting safety at construction sites. In addition, although efforts have been made to prevent safety accidents with the proposal of the Special Act on Construction Safety, fatalities on construction sites are constantly occurring. Therefore, this study developed a model that automatically detects the wearing state of the worker's safety helmet and belt using computer vision technology. In considerations of conditions occurring at construction sites, we suggest an optimization method, which has been verified in terms of the accuracy and operation speed of the proposed model. As a result, it is possible to improve the efficiency of inspection and patrol by construction site managers, which is expected to contribute to reinforcing competency of safety management.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.13 no.10
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• pp.337-342
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• 2015

SMT is an equipment that picks up electronic components and does precise placing onto PCBs. In order to do this, it stops in front of a camera installed in the middle to go over vision inspection. And after that it is move for placing. There are 16 different types of routes in this process. This paper presents the fastest algorithm to place (sLa-Camera-pLb) among all these routes. In order to do this, instead of stopping in front of camera the object should move on while going over the vision inspection. Among all possible tracks, this thesis will provide algorithm to find out the fastest tracks to do vision inspection and placing. And as a result, this thesis have demonstrated that this method can save about 16% of time compared to going over inspection while the object is standing still through simulation.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.9 no.11
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• pp.9-14
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• 2018

The vision system is a device for acquiring images and analyzing and discriminating inspection areas. Demand for use in the automation process has increased, and the introduction of a vision-based inspection system has emerged as a very important issue. These vision systems are used for everyday life and used as inspection equipment in production processes. Image processing technology is actively being studied. However, there is little research on the area definition for extracting objects such as character recognition or semiconductor packages. In this paper, define a region of interest and perform edge extraction to prevent the user from judging noise as an edge. We propose a noise-robust alignment correction model that can extract the edge of a region to be inspected using the distribution of edges in a specific region even if noise exists in the image. Through the proposed model, it is expected that the product production efficiency will be improved if it is applied to production field such as character recognition of tire or inspection of semiconductor packages.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.135-140
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• 2017

SMT is an equipment that picks up electronic components and does precise placing onto PCBs. In order to do this, it stops in front of a camera installed in the middle to go over vision inspection. And after that it is move for placing. In this paper, We compared to the method of the placing after inspect to the stoped component and the moving component in front of the camera. As a result, This paper shows that the time efficiency of the fly-motion was increased by 9 percent than the stop-motion.