Quality control automation of electric cables using machine vision

The article presents subject of using machine vision in order to automate quality control (QC) of wires and electric cables. QC include measurement of selected parameters of wires used for construction of electric cable, i.e. diameter of wires, length of crimped part as well as alignment of tested cable. The article provides detailed description of image acquisition for chosen cable series, image analysis method and measurement of selected parameters. The principal aim of the project is the construction of automatic system that control parameters of electric cable, designed to work in industrial conditions with frequency of 10Hz.

Keywords: machine vision, vision system, 2D image, image processing, quality control