The design brief was to provide an Integrated VGA card and frame
grabber that would display live colour video images within a window, by
a direct overlay technique, without consuming bus bandwidth. No other
cards of this type were available hence the need to commission a design.
About 1000 boards have been produced to date. This is a classic
example of the kind of design and build project that we undertake,
resulting in the the
VCG
card.
Johnson Matthey
The client built a new factory in Brussels to manufacture exhaust catalysts
for motor vehicles. We supplied four vision systems to guide robots at
automatic weighing stations
to pick catalysts from a moving conveyor, place them on a weighing machine
and replace them on the moving conveyor in their original position. A
control computer to collated the results and communicated them to a
central management computer.
BASF
We designed a system to enable registration of polymer printing
plates. These plates are easily damaged and replacements need to be
supplied. The system recorded images of tthe original plates on a video
recorder so that the image could be recalled to enable the new plate
to be registered in the same position as the original.
Exact Technology
Exact Technology make very
large plotter systems which when fitted with a variety of plotter heads
can be used for many applications apart from plotting. A very
successful application is the cutting of carbon fibre sheet for making
Formula 1 bodyshells. Vision Dynamics has designed and supplied a
vision system which can automatically track the edge of a pattern and
store the list of edge points in a standard (DXF) graphics file format.
The plotter can be used to reproduce the pattern at will.
