Robot Vision in Industrial Assembly and Quality Control Processes

In modern industrial assembly and quality control processes, that provide one of the crucial factors for the competitiveness of industry in general, there is a strong need for advanced robot-based object detection and recognition, object grasping and for the capability to perform assembling operations in non-structured environments with randomly positioned objects. Vision-based robotic assembly and quality control systems, that have been a topic of continued research interest for almost four decades, have now matured to a point where they can be effectively applied to advanced robot-based assembly and quality control tasks. This chapter will give an overview of research work related to the field of automated vision systems for assembly and quality control processes.